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We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
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Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris (b. 1928), British anthropologist. The Naked Ape, ch. 5 (1967).
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