"Every event is alike important. The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."
— Importance

January 1, 1970

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David Hume in: Timothy Dwight Theology, explained and defended, in a series of sermons: With a memoir of the life of the author, Harper, 1818, p. 193