Weight
- pund – pound, from 1683 the weight of 1/62 fot³ of water, 499.75 g (1.1 lb)
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“Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
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One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
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