"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."

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"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."

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"Humor was the enemy of desire."

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"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

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"Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds."

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"Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth."

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