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“ Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view. ”

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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

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There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

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When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

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I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

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