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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.
         

In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.


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If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.



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