"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
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"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?“
-Blaise Pascal
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