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last updated: November 28, 2023

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.
-- Ralph Davis

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I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.
-- Gilles Peress

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The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective memory of migration, suffering and transformation while living in South Carolina.
-- Kwame Dawes

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“But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .”
“The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.”

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“I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.”
“It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.”
“We are in the trophy generation.Give them a trophy for 23rd place.That makes the parents happy”
“Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.”

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“Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time.”

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“If the crowd is full of assholes, it's no fun. If the crowd is cool, it's great.”
“Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.”
“My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.”