Ian Jack quotes
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“The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.”
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“On the Internet, you can form a community without having to go through the trouble of meeting anyone.”
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“Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis”
-- Ian Jack
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.48
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
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