Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't ma…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (2010). An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas, p.206, W. W. Norton & Company
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Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (2010). An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas, p.206, W. W. Norton & Company

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