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The progress of the human race could be described as the history of how we didn't know what we didn't know.

— Catherine Asaro A Luminous Future (2008)

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“If this is not sorcery, what is it?”
“Technology.”

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That stopped me. I had been so caught up in events, I hadn’t had a chance to think through the ramifications of them all.

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“I do not understand this ‘mountain climbing.’” Shannar glared at Brad as if he had invented the activity rather than just given them the terminology. “What sane person would hammer spikes in a wall and swing from them on a rope?”

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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