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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 GMT
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"The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute."

GIAMBATTISTA VICO, ITALIAN PHILOSOPHER, `THE NEW SCIENCE' (1744)

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