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Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog

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The First Men in the Moon

by H.G. Wells

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Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

by Werner Herzog

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The Kafka Effekt

by D. Harlan Wilson (Goodreads Author)

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Scott’s Quotes

“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
― Italo Calvino , Invisible Cities

tags: philosophical

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“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: independence, self-reliance

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“The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.

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Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“While 45 percent of the land on earth is used to raise animals and food to feed them, it is estimated that only 5 percent is used to grow plant-based foods consumed directly by humans. This 5 percent, though, supplies 80 percent of the calories consumed by humans.15”
― Richard Oppenlander, Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work

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