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taxi

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12. Correct. Past is prologue.

Reply to ThePartyThatListens (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 07:45 AM

Dec 2024

All of this was necessary to bring us to where we are.

Shakespeare from his play The Tempest. In contemporary use, the phrase stands for the idea that history sets the context for the present. The quotation is engraved on the National Archives Building in Washington, DC,[1] and is commonly used by the military when discussing the similarities between war throughout history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_past_is_prologue

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