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Arthur C. Clarke - Just as the human memory is not a...

Just as the human memory is not a passive recorder but a tool in the construction of the self, so history has never been a simple record of the past, but a means of shaping peoples. (Arthur C. Clarke)

Just as the human memory is not a passive recorder but a tool in the construction of the self, so history has never been a simple record of the past, but a means of shaping peoples.

Arthur C. Clarke

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