You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man__ ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.
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The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man__ ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.
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