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• With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hustle, Culture, Strange

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• . . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or civic responsibility to this project of memory that ought to influence the way he or she engages in historical practice? Should moral concerns influence the historian's choice of subject matter, of issues to discuss, of evidence to use?

  Michael L Morgan

  Memories, Responsibility, Past

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• I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. But that's how we are. That's what happens when you put people together and put them into societies and cultures and have laws and the idea of justice.

  Henry Rollins

  Law, Ideas, Justice

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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