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One woman is our ancestral gardener, a cocreator of the good green world that would be the home of her descendants. The other was an exile, just passing through an alien world on a rough road to her real home in heaven.
A very curious juxtaposition of creation stories that I quite liked.
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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Strenuous Life
― Strenuous Life
“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
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“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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