My mother heard this in a nursing class:
They just finished discussing all the bones found in the human body. A young woman raises her hand to ask a question, and is called upon:
"What about the bone in the penis?"
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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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