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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

— Robert Penn Warren

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Here is the shadow of truth, for only the shadow is true.

There are a lot of people who would make better citizens if they were content to be just negatively relevant.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development (1999)

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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.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

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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