If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

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If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing. - Stephen Jay Gould

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