"Not to have knowledge of what happened..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.
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“Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.”
“Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.”
“Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.”