"Who would want to live in a world……" — Paul Shepard
"Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?"
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12 Quotes by Paul Shepard
Paul Shepard has 12 quotes on this site.
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Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions,…
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Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse…
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Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill…
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Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild…
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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…
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All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology -…
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To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions…
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The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.
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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…
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More Fatal Quotes
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one of 491 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
— Allan Bloom
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
— David Brin
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is…
— Frederick Buechner
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
— Edmund Burke
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
— Samuel Butler
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Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
— Cher
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims…
— Agatha Christie
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill
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Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment…
— George F. Kennan
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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
— Camille Desmoulins
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free…
— Thornton Wilder
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