For heroes do not make history—that is the historians’ job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept… — Ursula K. Le Guin
For heroes do not make history—that is the historians’ job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide of change, of chance, of war.
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