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George Santayana

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

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We should embrace what is coming because it will quickly become history, shaping how we live. At the same time, we need to honor what has already happened, understanding it represented the best efforts and achievements of people at that time.

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