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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.
Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their 'peculiar institution,' and northerners didn't mind, since the phrase suggested that chattel bondage was quarantined from the rest of the nation: that it was, or soon would be, a relic of its past and would not define its future.