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It's remarkable, really. I think perhaps the most compelling thing about it is that it gives us the opportunity to ask and answer many evolutionary questions.


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JEAN BAUDRILLARD Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be co...
JEAN ANOUILH The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
JEAN COCTEAU