We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in ju…

Lewis Thomas
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We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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