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if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.
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lot of the villages that we find so charming now were actually the shopping malls of the fourteenth century.”
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millers could work only during daylight hours, because even a candle risked causing an explosion in the dusty air.
And what is authentic? Anything that is not controlled by corporations. Anything that is not devised and structured to make a profit. Anything that exists for its own sake, that assumes its own shape. And what is the most authentic of all? The past.
history is the most powerful intellectual tool society possesses.
