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Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses

by Jackie Higgins

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Apr 22, 2026 03:18PM

“She smiled. “I love that old song about Muhlenberg County; John Denver did it, I think.”
“Him and a dozen others. But John Prine wrote and sang the original. It’s one of our claims to fame.”
She quietly began to sing under her breath, “Daddy…won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County…”
― James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

tags: history, kentucky, singers

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“No one is going to swoop down and save your life in one instance. If they do, there might be reason to be suspicious. It’s all about planting the little seeds in the heart, so you can do the changing yourself.”
― Billy Lawrence, Highway Zero

tags: inspirational-attitude

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“The human decision to domesticate fire was not logical, yet they did it.”
― James Aura, The Hurricane Code

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“Early one morning in the spring of 1985, I woke up and walked through the valley of the shadow of death, and didn’t even know it.”
― James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

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“Avoid arguments. They are a distraction from survival. If you lose, you feel more a loser than usual. If you win, you have made an enemy.
--John Berger”
― John Berger, King: A Street Story

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