It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything. Ann Brashares
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In our culture, we rarely look back to see what was done before. Instead, we try to innovate and create without looking at the mistakes that were made in the past.

Source: My Name Is Memory

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