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History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming Casino Royale · 1953

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“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged: in the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience have been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · New England Reformers, 1844 · Primary source

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