Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one can parse or understand.

Kim Stanley Robinson
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Every action has an equal reaction. The idea that history is made by individual actions is true, but history is also made by the collective actions of millions of people. History is not just about one person's life. It's about the lives of many.

Source: New York 2140

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