"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth."
-Simone de Beauvoir
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"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.“
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"All oppression creates a state of war."
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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
-Lewis Thomas
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