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Civics Quote by Ken Burns

“Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.” quote by Ken Burns — Download Open image

“Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.”

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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

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Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

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By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

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The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war, some lessons were learned. There's a saying: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Or Ecclesiastes: "What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again." Human nature always superimposes itself…

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Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what…

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People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

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History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

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It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

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Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in the Ninevehs of our lives without being so conscious of the coming cataclysm that we are not serious citizens of our communities and nations. By living and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are…

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The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished,…

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