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But then it occurs to him that death may be the work not of evil , but of chance : millions of chance accidents , chance misreadings in the cells that accumulate as the years go on . He devotes his talent to proving that chance has ...
But then it occurs to him that death may be the work not of evil , but of chance : millions of chance accidents , chance misreadings in the cells that accumulate as the years go on . He devotes his talent to proving that chance has ...
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There is a fine moment when someone suggests to him that the Pentagon is involved because it is afraid a weapon might emerge , and cannot take the chance that it might not be under its control . Thus the Pentagon , like Hogarth and ...
There is a fine moment when someone suggests to him that the Pentagon is involved because it is afraid a weapon might emerge , and cannot take the chance that it might not be under its control . Thus the Pentagon , like Hogarth and ...
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is incapable of giving up his cosmic " faith ” in chance , his sweet and impractical whim .... Chance , neutral and indifferent in itself , inexorably acquires the morbid ethical connotations of death , destruction , and decay when ...
is incapable of giving up his cosmic " faith ” in chance , his sweet and impractical whim .... Chance , neutral and indifferent in itself , inexorably acquires the morbid ethical connotations of death , destruction , and decay when ...
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