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Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.

Yann Martel

We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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Generations Seeing Shock Soul
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Boredom Opposites Swings
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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Acting Book Imagination
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Defend Failing People Realizing
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Heart Nerves Pain
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work
One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.
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Happy Mannered Mind Possessed Spy
It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Actors Potters Powerful
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Book Life Names Sometimes
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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Belief Believe Book Life
I chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Irrational Names Numbers Understanding
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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Dream Hands Survival
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
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Christian Practice Two
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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Fighting Give Up Loss
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over

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