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The counters stepped up; the pen started its upward rise. It showed no tendency to level off. A chain reaction was taking place in the pile. In the back of everyone's mind was one avoidable question, "When do we become scared?"
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Laura Fermi
Born:
1907
Died:
December 26, 1977
(aged 70)
Bio:
Laura Capon Fermi was an Italian, later American writer and political activist, and the wife of Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi.
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