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I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in central africa seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... as, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.
-Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in central africa seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... as, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.
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