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In another time, in another place, it would have been my right to beat my wife when she complained about my right to force my children into working as chimney sweeps.
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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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