"Adams, irreverent to the end, declared that, if it could ever be demonstrated conclusively that no future state existed (no afterlife), his advice to every man, woman, and child was to “take opium.”
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Vaclav Smil
Submitted by cvining on
You have to recognize the realities of the world, and the realities of the world tend to be unpleasant, discouraging and depressing.