"It is more comfortable for us to pretend that we are a kindly race, to let bygones be bygone, to let the dust of history mingle with the ashes of the dead and to sweep both under the same rug."
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Chapter 8, “Previous Experience Helpful, Not Necessary” (p. 72)
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