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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.

Yann Martel

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.
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Atheist Brother Legs
I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster.
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Crackle Faster Forest Girl Jealous Music Sweet
I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Beautiful Mosques Sunday
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
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
I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Grace People Zoos
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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Add Hearing Two Unexpected
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
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
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view.
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Together Views Want
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
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
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
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally

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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