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History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Andrew Marr

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Andrew Marr
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 31
Journalist
Glasgow
Scotland
Andrew William Stevenson Marr
Moral
History
Facts
Pointless
Accumulation
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Merely
Lessons
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