"Mankind has never been renowned for accepting logical solutions to its most serious problems. As a rule, the degre of logicality of solutions seemed to vary inversely with the urgency or seriousness of the problems."

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

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

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