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Well, like the man said, he didn't want to have bloodshed in Robert's halls on the eve of the king's death. To the end he tried to resolve things bloodlessly.
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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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