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He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.
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En büyük düşünceler, en basit olanlarıdır.
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The way towards simplicity is through outrage.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars.
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There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver river with a flashing light rippling back and forth along the lip of the fall.
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I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids.
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The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood.
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