It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.
Lewis Thomas
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Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.
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