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Quotation by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (b. 1917), U.S. historian. "The Challenge of Change," New York Times Magazine (July 27, 1986).
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