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North, almost at the place where the shortgrass country begins, are the ruins of a city of the Arbai, not unlike the many other cities of the Arbai found among the settled worlds, except that here on Grass the inhabitants died of violence.
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“Most people wildly overestimate what they can accomplish in a day, and woefully underestimate what they can accomplish in a year, let alone a decade.”
― Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
― Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
“If you want to know where a person is coming from, you need to read this material, not tear it up! You got to see what makes him think what he thinks!
-Ann Atwater”
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“Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted the earth is lighter, the hand that bears it heavier. When it is thrown the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“Is it the war that’s done it to you?
It’s all war, she said. What is? I don’t know. Everythin. Raisin a family, keepin yer head above water. Life. War is our natural state.”
― Cloudstreet
― Cloudstreet
“In an extraordinary time, he faced extraordinary choices, and maybe some would say this means we cannot judge him. But how can we really judge anyone except in the most extraordinary of circumstances? It's easy to be civilized and display a patina of orderliness in calm times, but your true character only emerges in darkness and under great pressure”
― The Paper Menagerie
― The Paper Menagerie
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