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Famous quotes containing the words records and/or events:

“What a wonderful faculty is memory!—the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds—this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”
—Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)

“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.