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The cosmos is a gigantic fly wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.

The cosmos is a gigantic fly wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

— H.L. Mencken

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