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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.
— Anthony Giddens
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As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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