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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself"
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
between July 1, 1742 and February 24, 1799. He/she was a famous
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