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“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”

George Santayana

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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

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