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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

Yann Martel

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Fiction Mean Play Reality
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Born Catholic Introducing
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Christianity Devotion God Religion
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving.
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Brother Children Moving Presence
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
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training

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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