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Your history has no age, and your age has no history.

— Egon Friedell The Return of the Time Machine (1946)

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Strangely enough most people only do sensible things if they are ordered to.

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Extraordinary, and yet when we look in the mirror of a higher possibility it seems understandable, even self-evident.

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It is the politician’s profession to invent facts.

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Many things no longer appear as “miracles” to us, if we decide to look at them through the eyes of practical physics.

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