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““Now, Hans, we have loaded the laundry. The machine will do the work. So now we can go to the library.” In went the laundry, and out cane books. Thank you industrialization, thank you steel mill, thank you power station, thank you chemical-processing industry, for giving us the time to read books.”

“In Sweden, a fatal bear attack is a once-in-a-century event. Meanwhile, a woman is killed by her partner every 30 days… people who care about saving lives should be much more concerned about domestic violence than about bears.”

this was written like ten years ago is this a coincidence or is this the sourc

“As a possibilst, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are.”