Asian Geographic Junior Issue 01/2017 No. 43 | Page 3

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Opening Lines
“ We are not makers of history. We are made by history” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ Necessity is the mother of invention” – Proverb
“ The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps” – Simon Conway Morris
“ History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again” – Maya Angelou
“ All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions” – Leonardo da Vinci
“ You have to look at history as an evolution of society” – Jean Chretien
“ To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk” – Thomas A. Edison
“ Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos” – Mary Shelley
“ Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate” – Unknown
“ To forget one’ s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root” – Chinese Proverb

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