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I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
James Lovelock
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Age: 105
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I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
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