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Past said to Future: "That's not how it's done."
Future said to Past: "Change is the only Constant."
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I suppose the most balanced perspective is somewhere in between.
Look at the world. Look at how much things have changed in a few hundred years. We've done "impossible" things over and over in this country. And I believe we can do that again.
The United States of America began with an idea. What some could have called "empty rhetoric". However, when people have gumption and take action to formulate these ideas, the results can become amazingly real and incontrovertible.