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Of all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man.

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Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 18, l. 130.

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Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 18, l. 130.

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There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

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Cohen, Leonard. "Anthem." The Future. Columbia Records, 1992.

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