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“Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.” George Bernard […]

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Can emotions pretend they are molecules? It could be a neat riff to understand our feelings in terms of organic chemistry and as a table of elements. We could name, identify  and classify them. The periodic table of raw materials that comprises the gamut of how people feel. Could we be so granular as to […]

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“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and […]

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“Yes in principle” is often a synonym for “no”.  Timothy Garton Ash “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” John F. Kennedy “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley

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