Any act that has once appeared in human history remains a potentiality long after it has passed

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• Whatever the punishment, once a crime has first appeared, its reappearance is more likely than its first emergence was HAHannah Arendtc. 1963–1964
• Submission to the impersonal forces of the market made possible a civilisation that could not otherwise have developed FHFriedrich Hayekc. 1944
• The Renaissance did not put human potential in the future: backwards was forwards, and the highest thing people could imagine being was Rome again. APAda Palmer16 Jun 2026
• Things that have worked for a long time are preferable NTNassim Nicholas Taleb14 Sept 2008
• Human progress is not inevitable; it comes through tireless effort, and without it time favors social stagnation MJMartin Luther King Jr.c. 1963–1964

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