History - Bill Watterson as Calvin

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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.

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jjp 6 years, 8 months ago
Brilliant.

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