Miscellaneous quotes
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Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
Mark Carneyborn 1965Speech at WEF, Davos (January 20, 2026)We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.
Mark Carneyborn 1965Speech at WEF, Davos (January 20, 2026)Luck’s just another word for destiny…either you make your own or you’re screwed.
John le Carré1931–2020The Mission Song (2006)“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir,” said Alice, “because I’m not myself, you see.”
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro1926–2016Speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the revolution (2 January 1961)
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936“Orthodoxy” (1908), Chapter VII: The Eternal Revolution- G. K. Chesterton1874–1936All Things Considered (1908), “On Running After One’s Hat”
