"For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes."

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“Cultures and societies consumed each other, as well as animals and men.”

“It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.”

“There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.”

“But then history was made by fools.”

“Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.”

“I am rebelling against imprisonment, I am rebelling against tyranny of the mind, I am rebelling against a collection of machines with interchangeable faces. Above all, I am rebelling against my own ignorance and your deliberate deception.”

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