Acts of kindness Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible...” quote by Stephen Jay Gould — Download Open image

“In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible...”

Stephen Jay Gould

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