We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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