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"The history of man is a must read poetry."
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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"
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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."
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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."
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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."
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"History is the hallmark of humanity."
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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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Explore more quotes by Ken Burns
"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."
Music
"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."
Lifestyle
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"
Identity
"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."
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"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it."
Music
"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."
Identity
"By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz."
Nature
"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style."
Music
"I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now."
History
"When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things."
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