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After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and hist

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate. – Michael Mandelbaum

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The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum

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movies
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Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. – Michael Mandelbaum

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In my experience, its not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows. – Michael Mandelbaum

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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. – William E. Gladstone

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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other peoples children. – Marian Wright Edelman

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The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability. – Julia Gillard

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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. – John F. Kennedy

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A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. – Marion C. Garretty

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Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way thats very cold and has such an opposite effect. – Jaron Lanier

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Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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