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Ursula K. Le Guin - For heroes do not make history...

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. (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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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