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->''"Change one event in the past and you get a brand new future? Erase the conquests of Alexander by nudging a neolithic pebble? Extirpate America by pulling up a shoot of Sumerian grain? Brother, that isn't the way it works at all! The space-time continuum’s built of stubborn stuff and change is anything but a chain-reaction. Change the past and you start a wave of changes moving futurewards, but it damps out mighty fast. Haven't you ever heard of temporal reluctance, or of the Law of the Conservation of Reality?"''

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->''"Change one event in the past and you get a brand new future? Erase the conquests of Alexander by nudging a neolithic pebble? Extirpate America by pulling up a shoot of Sumerian grain? Brother, that isn't the way it works at all! The space-time continuum’s continuum's built of stubborn stuff and change is anything but a chain-reaction. Change the past and you start a wave of changes moving futurewards, but it damps out mighty fast. Haven't you ever heard of temporal reluctance, or of the Law of the Conservation of Reality?"''
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->''"No one can unmake the past. Its already happened, there's no 'undo'. Similarly, the future's already happened, we've just haven't reached it yet."''

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->''"No one can unmake the past. Its It already happened, there's no 'undo'. Similarly, the future's future already happened, we've happened. We just haven't reached it yet."''
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->''"Everything that happens ''stays'' happened. You can't steer a train."''
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Literature/JohnnyAndTheBomb''
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->''"Change one event in the past and you get a brand new future? Erase the conquests of Alexander by nudging a neolithic pebble? Extirpate America by pulling up a shoot of Sumerian grain? Brother, that isn't the way it works at all! The space-time continuum’s built of stubborn stuff and change is anything but a chain-reaction. Change the past and you start a wave of changes moving futurewards, but it damps out mighty fast. Haven't you ever heard of temporal reluctance, or of the Law of the Conservation of Reality?"''
-->-- '''Creator/FritzLeiber''', ''Try and Change the Past''
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-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''JohnnyAndTheBomb''

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-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''JohnnyAndTheBomb''
''Literature/JohnnyAndTheBomb''
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-> No one can unmake the past. Its already happened, there's no 'undo'. Similarly, the future's already happened, we've just haven't reached it yet.

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-> No ->''"No one can unmake the past. Its already happened, there's no 'undo'. Similarly, the future's already happened, we've just haven't reached it yet."''



-> Everything that happens ''stays'' happened. You can't steer a train.

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-> Everything ->''"Everything that happens ''stays'' happened. You can't steer a train."''



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->'''Becky''': And the machine blowing up has returned everything to normal in the real school, including Mr Abercrombie!\\
'''Templeton''': Hmm. I'm not convinced that blowing up a machine would make everything go back to normal.\\
'''Mitchell''': Don't question it. We meddled with stuff we don't understand. We got away with it. Let's go play in the snow.\\
'''Templeton''': I mean, if you blow up a toaster, your toast doesn't turn back into bread, does it?\\
'''Becky''': Templeton, shh!\\
'''Templeton''': And if you blow up a cow, you don't make cheese not exist. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense!
-->-- ''Series/StrangeHillHigh'' "Teacher's Pet"
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->'''Becky''': And the machine blowing up has returned everything to normal in the real school, including Mr Abercrombie!\\
'''Templeton''': Hmm. I'm not convinced that blowing up a machine would make everything go back to normal.\\
'''Mitchell''': Don't question it. We meddled with stuff we don't understand. We got away with it. Let's go play in the snow.\\
'''Templeton''': I mean, if you blow up a toaster, your toast doesn't turn back into bread, does it?\\
'''Becky''': Templeton, shh!\\
'''Templeton''': And if you blow up a cow, you don't make cheese not exist. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense!
-->-- ''Series/StrangeHillHigh'' "Teacher's Pet"

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-> No one can unmake the past. Its already happened, there's no 'undo'. Similarly, the future's already happened, we've just haven't reached it yet.
-->-- '''Sarda''', ''Webcomic/{{Eight Bit Theater}}''

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-> No one can unmake the past. Its already happened, there's no 'undo'. Similarly, the future's already happened, we've just haven't reached it yet.
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-->-- '''Sarda''', ''Webcomic/{{Eight Bit Theater}}''
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-->-- '''TerryPratchett''', ''JohnnyAndTheBomb''

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-->-- '''TerryPratchett''', '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''JohnnyAndTheBomb''



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-->-- '''Sarda''', ''{{Eight Bit Theater}}''

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-->-- '''Sarda''', ''{{Eight ''Webcomic/{{Eight Bit Theater}}''

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