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There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Yann Martel

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
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
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Change Humanity Long Office
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
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
I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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Clothes Hate Needs
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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Language Perfection Sea Water
A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal – of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania – but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.
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Animal Course Jail Tanzania Zoos
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
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
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Air Art Stories
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
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Careful Men Ties
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
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
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos

There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

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