"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.“


-Jean Rostand

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

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