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Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the universe is as far as the telescope can see.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
Ideas
Telescopes
Everything
Buddhism
Think
Stuck
Thinking
Humanity
People
Universe
Ends
Change
Telescope
Together
Irrevocable

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