"In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves."

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"In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves."

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"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

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"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

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"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."

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"It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself."

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"A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever."

Nature

"Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity after their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand."

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"There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question."

"The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world."

"Intuition is beyond the scope of our mind, it is surprising, but it is the fact of life."

"Like many people who became sick, I found that researching man-made radiation immersed me into a corporate world of lie, confuse and deny."

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"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise."

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"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."

"It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself."

"A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever."

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