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Quotation of the Day for February 4, 2012



"The explicit awareness that you're a breathing piece of defecating meat, destined to die and ultimately no more significant than, let's say, a lizard or a potato, is not especially uplifting."

- Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology at Skidmore College.

[Another version of this statement is at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fear-death-and-politics]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Jan. 11, 2012

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