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Does anyone else see it as I do? Through this controversy, we are raising the profile of this fashion statement. This makes it more fashionable. More people will do it. It will appropriate the meaning and significance of this article, rendering it to a hipster's accessory to wear in the clubs or on a terrace while they eat watercress sandwiches and sip cosmos for lunch.
This will be a victory for the imperialist dogs.
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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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