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Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

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Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints! ↗

— Chief Seattle

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Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Sweet is the lore which nature brings, our meddeling interlect mis-shapes the beautious forms of things. we murder to dissect ↗

— William Wordsworth

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Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

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Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice". ↗

— David Stewart

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The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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