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Best: language, specifically writing — it can be credited for vaulting humanity into organized civilization.
Worst: atomic weapons — something that capable of widespread destruction should not have left our imaginations.
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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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