How much of human progress is inevitable, and how much depends on the determination of remarkable individuals?
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Jeff Bezos — Amazon Shareholder Letter
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The mark of the historic is that the present moment always will have been. What we do now is irrevocable—it joins the permanent record of what has occurred, and in that sense the past is the only thing that cannot be taken from us.
José Ortega y Gasset — History as a System