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As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
-Freeman Dyson
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As Finite Creatures Who Think And Feel,

Freeman Dyson
As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
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Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. but the wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.
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