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“There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
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inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
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“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
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