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“We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”
― Steve Jobs

“Common sense is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

“[A]lthough the past is never completely knowable, it is more knowable than the future.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

“F. Scott Fitzgerald’s test, from 1936, for a first-rate intelligence: “the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy