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"It's also important to vary your stimuli. I always look for new things to shock the system. Just as you make muscles grow by shocking them, you make the mind grow by shocking it."
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| Short for enclave (see also burbclave - autonomous suburban enclave) |
| Technovelgy from The Diamond Age,
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