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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. - Thor Heyerda

Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

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A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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