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Charles Wheelan
“It’s easy to lie with statistics, but it’s hard to tell the truth without them.”
Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

Mark Nepo
“Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.”
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

Mark Nepo
“The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.”
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

Elizabeth Kolbert
“By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.”
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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