There Is No Realizable Power That Man Cannot, In Time, Fashion The Tools To Attain, Nor Any Power So Secure That The Naked Ape Will Not Abuse It.

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There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools
to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it.
So it is written in the genetic cards -- only physics and war hold him in
check. And also the wife who wants him home by five, of course.
-- Encyclopadia Apocryphia, 1990 ed.

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