Also on December 22nd, in 1964, comedian Lenny Bruce was convicted of obscenity for using the words cocksucker and come (sexual) in his routine.
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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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