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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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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.
— William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless…
— Thomas Merton
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So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history…
— Charlton Heston
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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…
— Paul Shepard
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They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.
— Virginia Woolf
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Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military…
— Jon Stewart
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...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.
— Robert Fuller Murray
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The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time…
— Clint Black
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