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    The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)