Useless quote for 20 January:
"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, in "The Myths We Live By" (2004)
#UselessQuote #MaryMidgley
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