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They give us everything they think that we might want; they glut us with sensation and experience. And yet real feelings—fear, anxiety, excitement—are completely lost to us.
Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson
The answer, although not a neat one, may be that there will always be two utterly conflicting interpretations of the swastika, both of which are part of our history, present and future: one representing the worst of humanity and the other symbolising the best.
Swastika History: Why Was a Sanskrit Symbol Used by Hitler and the Nazis? | HistoryExtra
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This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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