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Captain Gray didn’t like anyone with a college degree because he didn’t have one (he didn’t feel a game warden needed any schooling); didn’t like anyone with a degree in wildlife management (a typical old-school game warden, he thought of
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“Or maybe arguing with people you disagree with takes less effort than exploring why they think differently from you.”
― Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
― Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
“I fear for your future, Kira,' said Victor. 'It's time to get reconciled to life. You won't get far with those ideas of yours.'
'That,' said Kira, 'depends on what direction I want to go.”
― We the Living
'That,' said Kira, 'depends on what direction I want to go.”
― We the Living
“To feel at home in a place, you have to have some prospect of staying there.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“Those who separate themselves from love, hardening their hearts as they grasp for power or wealth or fame, must separate themselves from the ground of their being. To fail to love is to destroy oneself.”
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“Because, fundamentally, nothing changes, you know. The huge old mistakes emerge time and again from the depths, like cunning monsters stalking prey. If you could sit at the window and watch human history unfold, do you know what you'd see? I'll tell you. You'd see an immense chain of mistakes repeated over the centuries, that's what. You'd watch them, arrayed in different garb, hidden behind various masks, concealed beneath a multitude of disguises, but they'd remain the same.”
― The Awakening of Miss Prim
― The Awakening of Miss Prim
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