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  "text": "We keep falling into the same ditches, you know? I mean, we learn more and more about the physical universe, more about our own bodies, more technology, but somehow, down through history, we go on building empires of one kind or another, then destroying them in one way or another. We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that’s the way things are. That’s the way things always have been.",
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      "text": "Consider—\n\nWe are born\n\nNot with purpose,\n\nBut with potential.",
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      "text": "Beware:\n\nIgnorance\n\nProtects itself\n\nIgnorance\n\nPromotes suspicion.\n\nSuspicion\n\nEngenders fear.\n\nFear quails,\n\nIrrational and blind,\n\nOr fear looms,\n\nDefiant and closed.\n\nBlind, closed,\n\nSuspicious, afraid,\n\nIgnorance\n\nProtects itself,\n\nAnd protected,\n\nIgnorance grows.",
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      "text": "“I’m not a demagogue.”\n\n“That’s too bad. That leaves the field to people who are demagogues—to the Jarrets of the world. And there have always been Jarrets. Probably there always will be.”",
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