Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
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