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The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It’s why the Americans are falling behind—they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they’d rather sit and pray that the world won’t make them adapt too much.

— Jaroslav Kalfař Spaceman of Bohemia (2017)

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The universe assigned the tasks of speaking and kissing to the lips because there is never a need to do both at the same time.

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Death would be so much easier to dance with if it weren’t surrounded by the clutter of civilization.

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For what it’s worth, the sociocultural rituals of your society seem to be in conflict with biological reality.

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His conviction is a compulsion not subject to self-preservation.

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The organization of religion is self-defeating, a trap for sin.

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