#TimeMarchesOn
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/us/pearl-harbour-bombing-anniversary-hnk
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]
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Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 1 (1586-1587)
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Listening to a podcast with two people talk about the WGA strike... only one of the people on it is old enough to remember the last strike (from 2007-2008).