"One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.“

-Robert A. Heinlein

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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."

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