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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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