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...[M]ost enemies are windmill-size.

...Common sense fails us in two ways: first and most often, it uncritically believes that technology equals progress, and second, even in cases in which people recognize the potential harm to the community, they generally don't believe that they can resist it.

...Quixote fought giants because he could not, in good conscience, not fight them.
-- Mariana Alessandri. In Praise of Lost Causes, New York Times (May 29, 2017).
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