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Undertaking the Sacrifices Necessary to Generate a Productive and Meaningful Reality

Undertaking the Sacrifices Necessary to Generate a Productive and Meaningful Reality

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Anson Ross Thompson
Jan 31, 2022
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"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means voluntarily transforming the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude a…

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