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  "text": "To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.\n\nI have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little peephole opened quite suddenly. Light and sound poured in. Voices began to describe me and my surroundings. Nothing they said could be appealed.",
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      "text": "My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. There is evil for you. We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM.",
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      "text": "You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven't ended yet.",
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