An open book has aged, crumbling pages on the left and clean blank pages on the right against a cream background.

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Time Enough for Love ‧ 1973

Robert Heinlein

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

History gets a blunt warning here. Ignore it, Heinlein's line says, and a generation loses both where it came from and where it's headed. Forgetting the past leaves nothing solid to build a future on.

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