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> [“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-lindberg/we-are-like-dwarfs-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-thanks-to-them/)

Carter Lindberg

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## More by Carter Lindberg

> [“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-lindberg/we-are-like-dwarfs-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-thanks-to-them/)

Carter Lindberg

> [“Human life without knowledge of history is nothing other than a perpetual childhood, nay, a permanent obscurity and darkness. -Philip Melanchthon”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-lindberg/human-life-without-knowledge-of-history-is-nothing-other-than-a/)

Carter Lindberg

> [“If memory is the thread of personal identity, history is the thread of community identity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-lindberg/if-memory-is-the-thread-of-personal-identity-history-is-the-thread-of/)

Carter Lindberg

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