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'In the end, defeat, and the cold, must come. First to the system, then the galaxy, then the universe, and the rest will be silence. Not to admit that is a foolish vanity.' She paused. 'Yet one grows flowers because they are lovely - not because one wishes them to live for ever.'

— John Wyndham The Seeds of Time (1956)

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When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

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