Budget Quote by Antony Beevor

“Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.” quote by Antony Beevor — Download Open image

“Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.”

Antony Beevor

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I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

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