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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
“Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence.”
As quoted in A Question of Physics: Conversations in Physics and Biology (1979), Paul Buckley and F. David Peat, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, p. 29.
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