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Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.

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Amos Elon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 1
Died: 2009
Died: May 25
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Vienna
Austria
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