• Anticorp@lemmy.worldM
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        4 months ago

        I’d be a cripple if not for our progress with surgery. I’m very glad to live in an era of modern medicine.

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      4 months ago

      Apparently, some politician tried to shutdown the patent office in the nineteenth century because “everything that can be invented has been invented.”

      edit: no need for “I” there.