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In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.
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Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.
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You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
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Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.
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If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.
