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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: October 15
Died: 2007
Died: February 28
Historian
University Teacher
Columbus
Ohio
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
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Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
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