Thomas S. Kuhn

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    Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
    And danced all the modern dances;
    And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
    But they knew that it was modern.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    The old forget the grief,
    Hack of the cough, the hanging albatross,
    Cast back the bone of youth....
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we’re supposed to be.
    —Maggie Kuhn (b. 1905)