April 20, 1945-Oct. 4, 2022
“Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.” — Ronald Dworkin
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