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# Civilizations survive because each generation...
> Civilizations survive because each generation decides that something from the past is still worth carrying into the future.
**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-extraction-markup-20260922/preimages/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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“Civilizations survive because each generation decides that something from the past is still worth carrying into the future.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-civilizations-survive-generation-worth-carrying-future
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