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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
Joan D. Vinge
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Joan D. Vinge
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 2
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All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.
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