We cannot say much about human affairs with any confidence, but sometimes it is possible. We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war, or there won't be a world-at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. (Noam Chomsky)

We cannot say much about human affairs with any confidence, but sometimes it is possible. We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war, or there won't be a world-at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Noam Chomsky

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