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  • You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else isgrandiose romanticism or politics.

    - Charles Bukowski
      Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

  • Detection is, orought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love- story oran elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      The Sign of Four, ch.1.

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