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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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