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The Plague
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There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.
“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.” Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981.”
― Supreme Justice
― Supreme Justice
“Any system, any hierarchy, any authority is inherently flawed, corrupted by the insurmountable gap between ideal and reality.”
― Deadly Waters
― Deadly Waters
“All distances in time and space are shrinking. […] Yet the frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness does not consist in shortness of distance. What is least remote from us in point of distance, by virtue of its picture on film or its sound on radio, can remain far from us. What is incalculably far from us in point of distance can be near to us. […] Everything gets lumped together into uniform distanceless. […] What is it that unsettles and thus terrifies? It shows itself and hides itself in the way in which everything presences, namely, in the fact that despite all conquest of distances the nearness of things remains absent.”
― Poetry, Language, Thought
― Poetry, Language, Thought
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