*tsk tsk*
Such a violent people we are.
Why don't we just lay
on the kid, the mother, the old stranger, and the Walmart greeter and be done with it?
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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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