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Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A paren

-- Louis L'Amour

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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

-- Aldo Leopold

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Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

-- Howard Pattee

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When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.

-- Dejan Stojanovic

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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

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It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

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I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

-- Kristen Bell

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Your success will not be determined by your gender or your ethnicity, but only on the scope of your dreams and your hard work to achieve them.

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According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from vegetarianism into meat-eating. Then they fell from instinct into reason, and thus into technology; from simple signals into complex grammar, and thus into humanity; from firelessness into fire, and thence into weaponry; and from seasonal mating into an incessant sexual twitching. Then they fell from a joyous life in the moment into the anxious contemplation of the vanished past and

-- Margaret Atwood

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If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

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