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“Some 5,000 of Wallace’s 8,050 bird specimens he collected during eight years in the Malay Archipelago were actually collected by Ali. None are named after the young man.”
― "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
― "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
“I am a creature of chemicals.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“Imagine someone from that future could go back in time and talk to you—someone who lives at a time in which mankind only inhabits one planet, who is arguably among the final generations of humans capable of permanently changing the future of human cultures across thousands of planets by creating a durable culture and high-fertility-rate family that carries prosocial values into the future. Why would you tell them you didn’t make an effort to fix things while one person's efforts could still make a difference? ”
― The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
― The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
“When it comes to meditation, one minute is better than zero. Something is an improvement from nothing.”
― I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
― I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
“When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart,”
― The City and the Stars
― The City and the Stars
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