Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter XI, Beyond the Economic Revolution, p. 317
“The future is built on the rubble of the past; wisdom lies in facing that fact, not in fighting against it.”
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Arthur C. Clarke
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The Road to the Sea
The Road to the Sea, p. 265
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
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