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Mary Midgley - The Myths We Live By (2003)

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Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Mary Midgley

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Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Mary Midgley

Mary Midgley
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Born: September 13, 1919
Died: October 10, 2018 (aged 99)
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