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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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