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“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
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“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”
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“For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.”
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“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
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“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.”
― Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
― Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
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