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The Selfish Gene
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Ray Bradbury
“Ignorance is fatal.”
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

Thich Nhat Hanh
“I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. They are the ground upon which I stand. To”
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now

Stephen  King
“Money was no cure for sorrow, Alec reflected, but it did allow one to grieve in relative comfort.”
Stephen King, The Outsider

Margaret Atwood
“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know.”
Margaret Atwood

Yuval Noah Harari
“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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