"When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest."

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History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.

— Howard Zinn