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Zia Haider Rahman Quotes: Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.
         

Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.


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Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.
         



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