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To: DoodleDawg

History is the stories we tell ourselves about the past.


2 posted on 01/05/2018 12:09:06 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine
History is the stories we tell ourselves about the past.

We can change the story we tell ourselves in order to make ourselves feel better, but that still doesn't change history.

3 posted on 01/05/2018 12:12:07 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Pearls Before Swine

‘History is the stories we tell ourselves about the past.’

in before some Freeper posts that Lincoln personally killed 700,000 people in the Civil War...


6 posted on 01/05/2018 12:14:33 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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If a story ceases to be true, it ceases to be history.


27 posted on 01/05/2018 12:47:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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