Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

Arthur Koestler
Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against...
Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against...
Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against...
Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against...
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When we do not learn from the past, we are committing a crime against future generations. The "crime," of course, is not a criminal offense but a moral one. We are depriving the future of the knowledge and wisdom that would have been gained from our own mistakes. We are also wasting our own time and energy by continuing to make the same errors over and over again. In this way, we deny our future selves.

Source: Darkness At Noon

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