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History is a means of access to ourselves.

Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

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More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.
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The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
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If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.
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[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.
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We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
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