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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. – Will and Ariel Durant, The Reformation

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell

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The obscurest epoch is today. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains

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