An open book has aged, crumbling pages on the left and clean blank pages on the right against a cream background.

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Henry Ford

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

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The speaker dismisses inherited history and tradition in favour of creating history through present action. This preference is a provocative judgment rather than proof that the past has no value.

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