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Sťopa Lichodejev

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“I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a
bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely
than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south
wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new
house.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“The poor foreigner,' he said, 'has been acquainted with our grasslands but for four short days.'
'We must pity him,' said the old man with feeling.
'How hard it must be,' commented the woman, 'not to be born a Mongolian.'
'To be sure,' said the old man, 'the fellow is most unfortunate. But how blessed he is to have found his way to us!”
― Fritz Mühlenweg

tags: mongolia, the-cave-of-the-yellow-dog

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“but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

tags: inspirational

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“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.”
― Greg Egan

tags: biology, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, space-exploration

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