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The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.

Dexter Palmer , in The Dream of Perpetual Motion
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By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

E.A. Bucchianeri , in Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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