HUMANOID WISHES FOR A NEARBY FUTURE, 9:

"We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity."
(Revolutionary Proclamation of the Junta Tuitiva, La Paz, July 16, 1809.)

Though stated more than a hundred years ago, I still wish we hadn`t.

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