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“Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.”

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“Daisy had learned not to pay much heed to techno-fads. To her fell the task of preserving as much as possible, so that when humanity finally did fall, it wouldn’t take everything else to the grave with it.”

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"I think people have to have some feeling that they have some role in shaping their own future and that they are not just spectators on the of kings, presidents, prime ministers and so on which is on t…"

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"If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve…"

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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— Margaret Thatcher

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