“Today we don’t celebrate the loss of the man, but the death of his hatred.”
—Toronto native Stephan Gerhardt, whose brother Ralph died in the World Trade Center’s North Tower
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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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