Ambrose BierceGod alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
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The past is something that has already happened; it is not something that can be changed. The future, on the other hand, is something that has not yet happened; it is something that can be changed. God alone knows the future, but when we try to change events in the past, we are relying on fallible human intelligence and not God’s.
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