“Without a sense of history, our expectations are the product of how we live now.”
David Fleming (1940–2010) British activist
Lean Logic, (2016), p. 152, entry on Expectations https://leanlogic.online/expectations/
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”
— John Steinbeck, book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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