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“Bülow drew danger to himself by the excessive use of technique; he behaved like a spy because he enjoyed the trappings of conspiracy. He had been making the same furtive mistakes for such a long time that he believed they had preserved his life. No one else doubted that sooner or later they would kill him.”
― Charles McCarry, The Secret Lovers

“A superficial reading of history often appears to offer a causal deterministic explanation for why things happened one way and not another. But a more refined analysis tends to reveal an intricate web of competing forces at crossroads that, together with a great number of accidents, render the road taken far from obvious and certainly not inevitable, forcing one into a description of how, not why.”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory