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To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

Amitav Ghosh
Past, Use, Enough
Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.468, Random House
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.