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"The one duty we owe to
history is to rewrite it" Oscar
Wilde. 1891. The Critic
as Artist.
"A thing belongs to the one who remembers it most obsessively" Kanan
Makiya. 2001. The Rock: A tale of seventh-century Jerusalem
"About
thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and
not theorise; and I remember some one saying that at this rate a man might well
go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe their colours. How odd
it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against
some view if it is to be of service."
Charles Darwin 1861.
"Problems
can not be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them."
Albert Einstein
"Archaeologists
ought to be grateful to worms, as they protect and preserve for an indefinitely
long period every object, not liable to decay, which is dropped on the surface
of the land, by burying it beneath their casting." Charles Darwin
1881
"The
hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past."
Milovan Djilas (1911-1995), Yugoslav author-politician.
Djilas was warning apparatchiks rather than Marxist archaeologists - but still
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"You never know how
the past is going to turn out." Jude Quinn in I'm Not There,
2007
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