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"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibili..." — Alfred North Whitehead

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Alfred North Whitehead
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