Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, a…

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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

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