“Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late
Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate,
And make the stern Recorder otherwise
Enregister, or quite obliterate!”

—  Omar Khayyám

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Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048–1131

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