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Societies have always relied on memory in order to preserve their own identity.

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“The person who cannot set himself down on the crest of the moment, forgetting everything from the past, who is not capable of standing on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without dizziness or fear, will never know what happiness is. Even worse, he will never do anything to make other people happy"

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Reading not only enriches our memory but also makes our personal life a little longer.

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Mass media are mainly interested with present.

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“philosophical argument cannot be divorced from the textual and contextual conditions of its historical emergence”.

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In order to preserve its identity a culture must not only act as a stock of information but also as a filter.

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”I, myself alone, have more memories than all mankind since the world began"
(Although I don't like the word "mankind")

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"My dreams are like other people's waking hours."

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"If Hitler had read the something on Napoleon (or at least Tolstoy’s War and Peace) he would have understood that it is pretty difficult for an army to reach Moscow before the arrival of winter — and if Bush had read documented historical narrations about the British and Russian attempt to win a war in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have suspected that that country presents many orographic and social features that make very difficult to submit its territory".

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To filter does not mean to cancel. As a matter of fact frequently societies do not make us forget what we know or knew, but they also keep us from finding out what we do not know yet. Thus it happens that a culture can perform various kinds of cancellation.

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“The inability to filter out entails the impossibility to discriminate”

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Mass media are mainly interested with present.

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"History is the master of life". Author metions the importance of the history for present and for future decisions. On the example of Napoleon and Bush he shows that how they could have avoided fatal mistakes if they had looked at history. It is important to know errors of the past.

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The person who cannot set himself down on the crest of the moment, forgetting everything from the past, who is not capable of standing on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without dizziness or fear, will never know what happiness is. Even worse, he will never do anything to make other people happy.

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We have increased our memory storage capacity, but we haven’t yet found the new parameters of filtering out.

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"Up to now society filtered things out for us, through textbooks and encyclopedias. With the coming of the Web, all possible knowledge and information, even the least useful is there at our disposal. Hence the question: Who is doing the filtering out?"