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Cash's version is more potent to me when you contextualize it with his life, career, and such, at the point when he recorded it.
Reznor's original is good, too, of course, but if I had to pick just one....
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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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