It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

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825 In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
718 Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
730 No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
712 Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
731 It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

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