The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. - Robert Penn Warren - Quotesmemo.com

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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

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Robert Penn Warren

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Damnation, History, Sense, World

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The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Ends, Kill, Know, Knowledge, Men, Save

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

Bad, Good, Make

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Bad, Complicated, Devil, Human, Learn, Students

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

Common Humanity, Giving, Understanding, Experience, Common, History

Everything seems an echo of something else.

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