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"Nought, mighty king, this time hast thou excepted: let my husband live; Without him I desire not happiness, nor even heaven itself; Without him I must die. 'So be it! faithful wife', replied the king of death. 'Thus I release him;' and with that he loosed the cord that bound his soul." – Savitri in the Râmâyana / Mahâ-Bhârata
"At the same time, taking into account the existence, within the various ruling classes, of elements that have always tended (out of boredom and thirst for novelty) toward things that lead to the disappearance of their societies, we should incite the persons who control some of the vast resources that we lack to provide us with the means to carry out our experiments…
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