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"The young are so ready to learn who to love and who to hate...But humans are not rats...The strategy of long childhoods and early learning introduces a new element: culture," (199).

"Death serves as a poignant reminder of our own limitations and frailties—and of the bond with our ancestors who, in a way, died that we might live," (152).

"It will be enough if a few salient and generic characteristics of life on yet another obscure planet are noted for the cavernous recesses of the galactic archives," (139).

"In human history there are a precious few whose memory we revere because they knowingly sacrificed themselves for others. For each of them, there are multitudes who did nothing," (118).

"Biology is much more like language and history than it is like physics and chemistry," (92).

This is really graphic but really cool as well. The literature is just amazing.

"You can't avoid the game by saying you don't want to play. It'll find you."

Six...Seven

"We must press forward, traveling as much as we can each day-but when I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive."