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92: The Lessons of History

Made You Think

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The Pendulum of Progress

The main theme of the book is that there's a pendulum and things rise and they fall. And most ideas are not necessarily novel because they've existed before it's just a pendulum swinging back. They also are very lucid about it like they there's a quote that I like at the beginning of the book which is most of history is guessing and the rest is prejudice.

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