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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

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638 When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
678 We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
681 We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
711 The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
621 The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

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