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The development of our personalities doesn’t take place in isolation, but in relationship with others—we are shaped and completed by unseen, unremembered forces; namely, our parents.
“Like Abraham Lincoln, I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
― Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
― Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
“Be cheerful—the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.” —Benjamin Franklin”
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“In a 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates asserted, “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes”
― Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
― Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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