What strange adventures await us in those yet untraveled regions toward which we speed? — into what malign conditions may we not at any time plunge? … - Ambrose Bierce
" "What strange adventures await us in those yet untraveled regions toward which we speed? — into what malign conditions may we not at any time plunge? — to the strength and stress of what frightful environment may we not at last succumb? The subject lends itself readily enough to a jest, but I am not jesting: it is really altogether probable that our solar system, racing through space with inconceivable velocity, will one day enter a region charged with something deleterious to the human brain, minding us all mad-wise.
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About Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – date of death uncertain; probably late 1912 or early 1914) was an American satirist, critic, short story writer, editor and journalist. He is perhaps most famous for his serialized mock lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary, in which, over the years, he scathed American culture and accepted wisdom by pointing out alternate, more practical definitions for common words.
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Tizenkilenc éves voltam, amikor apám balsorsa úgy hozta, hogy meg kellett halnia. Ritka jó egészségnek örvendett világéletében, ezért ebéd közben bekövetkezett váratlan halála mindnyájunk közt őt lepte meg a legjobban. (...) Ebéd végeztével, miután szegény apám tetemét eltakarítottuk a padlóról, anyám mindnyájunkat beidézett a szomszédos szobába, és így szólott hozzánk:
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History does not forbid us to hope. But it forbids us to rely upon numbers; they will be against us. If history teaches anything worth learning it teaches that the majority of mankind is neither good nor wise. When government is founded upon the public conscience and the public intelligence the stability of states is a dream.
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