"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."

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"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

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