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Evolution isn't even a battle; it's an outcome of traits based on environmental/situational pressures. Dogs just happen to be well-suited to fighting without the use of tools. Humans? Not so much. We're rather tender and blunt around the edges.
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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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