“If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”

— Terry Pratchett , book I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

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