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# A civilization that cannot distinguish inheritance...
> A civilization that cannot distinguish inheritance from truth eventually becomes a museum guarding its own mistakes.
**Source:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-extraction-markup-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/preimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]]
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“A civilization that cannot distinguish inheritance from truth eventually becomes a museum guarding its own mistakes.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-civilization-cannot-distinguish-guarding-own-mistakes
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