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He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it.
Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.

— Michael Crichton Timeline (1999)

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Hence the familiar ideas continue to be repeated, long past their demonstrable validity.

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