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“quotation from the poet Horace. “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
― Life in a Box
― Life in a Box
“Don't deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”
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“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
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“Three hundred fifty parts per million,” he replied. “The number of carbon molecules the atmosphere can hold, and still maintain the ordinary thermal balance. It’s an important figure.”
― Flight Behavior
― Flight Behavior
“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
― Journal of a Solitude
― Journal of a Solitude
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