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"The ants are bad" The Bear"the ants?"Tahir"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman."
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"Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. 'That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table."

"You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided."

"One moment of incompetence can be fatal."

"Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up."

"He who destroys another person to succeed in life will have destruction awaiting him at the post of his success."

"You will definitely reap whatever you have sown."

"Man has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history."

"There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences."

"To Reap The Result Of Destructive Behavior Is To Do Evil."

"Today's problems are yesterday's mistakes coming back to bite you in the ass."
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"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things."


"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."


"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."


"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."


"My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts."


"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."


"For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home."
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