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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. ↗

— Louis Leakey

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As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. ↗

— Alice Meynell

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I lapsed into rude. ↗

— Dennis Miller

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