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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

— Niels Bohr The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery (2000)

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Some things are so serious that one can only joke about them.

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without any citation as to author in Denial is not a river in Egypt (1998) by Sandi Bachom, p. 85.

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