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“Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race”

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Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

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Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and…

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The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

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