Talks Collapsed

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“If he talks ambiguously—talks for his country with “buts” and “ifs” and “ands.””
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“William James once said: “Progress is a terrible thing.” It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knows but that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)