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Re:What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?... by cmgxyz on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:52PM (#22798268)
> TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE

This has always stuck with me. I’m not well enough read to know if he borrowed it from somewhere, but I’m not sure Terry Pratchett ever wrote finer words than those. Beautifully concise and apt summary of the human condition.

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Re:What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?... by dmurray on Monday April 06, 2020 @07:57PM (#22799113)
A variation of that quote is in a book by Robert Ardrey in 1961:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Ardrey

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Re:What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?... by totetsu on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:10AM (#22800487)
and maybe related to Nietzsche's "Man is a rope" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/384722-man-is-a-rope-stretc...
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