A Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.
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