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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

Yann Martel

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
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 can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
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
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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Animal City Crocodile Fall Ostriches
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Movie Love Thinking
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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Country Reading Reality
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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Doing Good Happy Knows
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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Heart Light Shining
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Earth Expression Grace
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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Beautiful Jealous Life
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.
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Book Condemnation Girl Powerful

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