In any case, (3) isn’t rhetorical: where do the profits go? — Mikie
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under circumstances of their own choosing, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
It’s like that, and that’s the way it is. — Jamal
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident. — Schopenhauer
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