"We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it."

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Source : "The Future as History". Book by Robert Heilbroner (Chapter IV, Part 9, The Grand Dynamic of History, p. 209), 1960.

Robert Heilbroner

#Helping Quotes #Failing Quotes

“It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.”
“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
“The only reason I do anything is that I just love writing songs. If I write songs, I feel good about it for days and that's the only reason I do it and it is the only reason I'm in a band. And it's the touring aspect, getting out there, seeing the world, meeting people. It's all I ever really wanted, you know. And it's kind of ever since I was fourteen, I was compelled to do it. I just don't really know what it is or why it is.”

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“That evil can never be great which is the last.”
“I have great faith in the jury system.”
“All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.”
“Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.”
“You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.”

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