"I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most." —George H. W. Bush (spoken before a college audience during his failed 1980 presidential campaign)
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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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