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There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.
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history
history-repeating-itself
patterns
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.
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war
history
books
burial
history-repeating-itself
winning
generations
remember
lonely
grave
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Ray Bradbury |
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dff2759
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
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past
historical-perspective
history-repeating-itself
human-perception
jared-wheat
past-and-future
the-past
historical
presence
perception
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T.S. Eliot |
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582a0a4
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How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!
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war
hate
history
fun
books
uncaring
classism
starving
history-repeating-itself
cave
bombs
forgotten
rich
poor
mistakes
ignorance
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Ray Bradbury |
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b056bf9
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A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago as slaves. While this layer of nativeness was not vast in proportion of the rest, it had vast importance, for society had been shaped in reaction to it. An unspeakable violence had occurred in relation to it, and yet it endured, fertile, a stratum of soil that perhaps made possible all future transplanted soils.
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slavery
natives
u-s-history
history-repeating-itself
slaves
us-history
immigrants
immigration
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Mohsin Hamid |
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1d48505
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Hiding the past never works as well as simply neglecting it.
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history-repeating-itself
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John Scalzi |
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Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down--or up, I suppose--replacing other people in the process.
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history
human-history
history-repeating-itself
history-of-mankind
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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858e099
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I could tell you tales of priestly behavior that would make you shudder.
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history-repeating-itself
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Bernard Cornwell |