You have to believe in yourself when no one else does
The Big Bang is not the beginning of everything, but the beginning of our observable universe.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.