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Lewis Thomas Quotes: Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.
         

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.


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I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.



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