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"Adaptation is the key to survival."

"A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct."

"The best thing-in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing-about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it."

"When in doubt, choose to live."
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."


"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."


"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."


"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
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"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
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