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Weekly quotes: wise words vs mouth turds
Wise words:
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.”
Mouth turds:
“Every time you have that soil or rock or whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise, because now you have less space in those oceans, because the bottom is moving up.”
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