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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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Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?
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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 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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I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of…
— Tori Amos
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The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot…
— Max Wertheimer
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Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore…
— Toni Packer
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The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less…
— Leslie Fiedler
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As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other…
— William Thurston
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which…
— Barbara Kruger
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context…
— George W. S. Trow
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It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word,…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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