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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.