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Vivienne Westwood

"I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct."

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"I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct."

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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

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"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong."

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"An important part of what the state does is preserving its history."

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

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