An actor whose only constraint on its capabilities is its own aspirations will consume its means before reaching its end, because it has cut itself off from the past, where experience resides, and from the future, where the unforeseen lurks.

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  The only constraints Xerxes imposed on capabilities were his own aspirations. He hoped for

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  lived only in the present, cutting himself off from the past, where experience resided, and from the future, where the unforeseen lurked. Had Xerxes grasped these distinctions, he'd have seen tha

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