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Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
-Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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Thought Is Not A Gift To Man

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
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