"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.“


-Alfred Hitchcock

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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

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