8 February 2013

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What a chimera is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sewer of uncertainty and error, the glory and the scum of the universe.
Blaise Pascal, quoted by Steven Pinker in an epigraph to The Better Angels of Our Nature

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