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"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"
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