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There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Leon Kass

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Leon Kass
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: February 2
Physician
Scientist
Chicago
Illinois
Leon Richard Kass
Leon R. Kass
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