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Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.
Ronald Dworkin
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Ronald Dworkin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1931
Born: December 11
Died: 2013
Died: February 14
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Worcester
Massachusetts
Ronald Myles Dworkin
Ronald M. Dworkin
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