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I'm reluctant to view low intelligence disparagingly while viewing high intelligence as though it were virtuous in and of itself. There are other factors that help me determine how I judge character and someone's worth.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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