“It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you it's not true and that it's blushing just as I am now, all over. The Karamazov Brothers
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. Don Quixote
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” 1984
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