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“No attachments. Walk away in thirty seconds flat from anything and anybody if you spot the heat around the corner.”
― Michael Mann, Heat 2

“Birdwatching, at first glance, seems like a pursuit designed specifically for people who find stamp collecting too stimulating. But oh, how wrong they would be. Behind the courteous nods, the gentle lift of binoculars and the soft pitter-patter of birder footsteps on dew-dappled gum leaves lies a world of unexpected drama – a scandalous underbelly of rivalry, controversy and intrigue. Indeed, what appears to be a peaceful communion with nature masks a tempest of Shakespearean passion.”
― Natalie Kyriacou, Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction

“Thank you is a phrase that is fundamental to life, starting with family life. Together with please and sorry, it’s a key that opens the way to a well-lived life, to a life of peace.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“If we want to be able to understand how peace is made, and have the strength to make it, let us all be childlike.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography