"He who expects little is rarely disappointed."

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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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