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“It was as though the man-eater - for no other leopard would have killed the goat and laid it on the track- had said, 'Here, if you want your goat so badly, take it; and as it is now dark and you have a long way to go, we will see which of you lives to reach the village.”
― Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
― Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
― Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
― Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
“Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of movement, and beauty of colouring, of this the most gracefuL and the most beautiful of all animales in our Indian jungles.”
― Man-Eaters of Kumaon
― Man-Eaters of Kumaon
“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.”
― Eric
― Eric
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