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The teacher of the assembly summed this up as "better a live dog than a dead lion".

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I've often thought that, and it was one of my principal complaints about masculinity. What's the point of dying nobly, better to run away and do guerrilla warfare.

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I think Qohelet would suggest acquiescence. It's very quasi-stoic book.

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