“History's lessons don't expire after a few decades.”
“The lesson of history is that we don't learn the lessons of history.”
“Edward: “After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved.”
“It's always like this after a few days here. I start to lose my bearings. The surface is one way, but then there are all these other things going on, sometimes going back decades, swirling undercurrents that I just don't understand. [p. 336]”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
“And long after the history of all the big things that make the front pages are forgotten, what God has done through you and a few people will be history.”