“Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.”
Saul Bellow book Dangling Man
Dangling Man (1944) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ISBN 0-140-18935-1], p. 84
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“… there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”
Source: The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
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