I grew up two blocks from the ocean. Learning to swim was mandatory.
I'm still nothing special, but drop me in deep water and I'll be fine for ten minutes. After that, all bets are off.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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