"Our faith in the future rests up on our faith in these laws of nature. And so we can understand that these laws cannot be broken, but must pursue their inexorable course even when, because of an accidental, unavoidable concatenation of circumstances, this course is such as to take from us our friend Elizabeth early in her life..."
Linus Pauling. "Talk at Memorial Services for Elizabeth Swingle." September 27, 1943.

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