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The world is a not a fairy tale adventure. It has issues we have created and we have to destroy, ourselves.

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“A scientist can revisit scientific history at his choice. A humanist has no choice: he must revisit the history of the humanities all the time, because it is always alive and can’t be superseded.”

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Last week I got to meet a man in the last six hours of his life, although I obviously didn’t know that at the time.