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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
W. H. Auden

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great
superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the
NATO nations.
Ronald Reagan

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That
means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the
distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion. --Albert Einstein

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. --Emerson