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...you sometimes note an impatience on the part of a specialist that the public does not show sufficient interest in his assemblage of information as such. He is likely to conclude that the average person is somewhat stupid. The opposite is true. It is a sign of native intelligence on the part of any person not to clutter his mind with indigestibles.

~ Freeman Tilden

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The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

~ Constance Penley

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In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.

~ Wallace Stegner

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