"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."
-Rene Descartes
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"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.“
-Rene Descartes
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