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Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in…
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Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it…
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Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and…
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Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and…
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The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.
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When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling…
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All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun…
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To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought…
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The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.
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Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?
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There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
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The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.
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Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in…
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You're my fantasy come true. The feel of my skin tinkling as you kiss your way along my body generates so much…
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