but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Diseas…

Jim Butcher
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but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would. ✨ Jim Butcher (2010). The Dresden Files Collection 1-6, p.14, Penguin
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