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"Wild animals are alive until they're dead. Most Americans, on the other hand, are neither truly alive nor totally dead. They sleep but do not dream, and they breathe, but never deeply. They stumble through their days and argue, unconvincingly, between complaints, that they are happy. Elation and anguish are strangely absent from their lives, ( Read more... )

"It is not good that monsters should live among us."
- Ambrose Pare

"Had I not been subject to darkness,
I could not have seen the light."
- Midrash