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The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.

In The Long Term, It Is Desirable That The Human Race, Faced With The Prospect Of Extinction On Earth, Should Prepare An Escape Route For Itself To Another Inhabitable Planet.

If I See A Door Ajar, I Push On It To See How Far It Will Open, And If It Opens Wide I Go Through It.

There Are No Inevitabilities In History

In 1924 Mao Took A Chinese Friend, Newly Arrived From Europe, To See The Notorious Sign In The Shanghai Park, 'chinese And Dogs Not Allowed'.