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“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
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“The concerns and methods vary, but there is to it all, at bottom, a message that is unmistakably Luddistic: beware the technological juggernaut, reckon the terrible costs, understand the worlds being lost in the world being gained, reflect on the price of the machine and its systems on your life, pay attention to the natural world and its increasing destruction, resist the seductive catastrophe of industrialism.”
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“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.”
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“Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.”
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“I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers. Their ancestors. It is true what they say: history does repeat itself, Delacroix, and those after history are left to make it, but how can they,” he removed his hand from the globe, waving it thoughtfully through the air, “when it has already been made?”
― The Dark World
― The Dark World
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