"We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could."

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I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

— Ellen Goodman