The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. - "Alfred North Whitehead"

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
Alfred North Whitehead

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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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