He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to South Africa again,
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If people would forget about utopia When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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