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What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

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