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It was towards the end of the 17th century, the philosopher Leibniz who asked it, a very smart guy, Leibniz, who invented the calculus independently of Isaac Newton, at about the same time, but for Leibniz, who asked why is there something rather than nothing, this was not a great mystery.

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First, the intransigence of local leaders to settle for nothing less than their maximum demands.

The American dream of individual land ownership turned out to be a very clever way to divide the reservation until nothing was left.

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I'm used to algorithms and data structures and super motivated students, and nothing in my background prepared me to deal with a raging, violent adolescent in the middle of nowhere.

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