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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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History

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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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People perish. Books are immortal.
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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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