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last updated: November 28, 2023

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
-- Christopher Cokinos

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
-- Wallace Stevens

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“It's difficult to sit down and write a letter back saying, "you know what, even if we remove the word from the dictionary, people will still continue to use it." That's the tightrope that we walk - "gay marriage" is another example, or the word "nude."”

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“Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature”
“The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.”
“The light is heart-breaking.”
“Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.”
“A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.”
“I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.”
“Soldiers must possess integrity in order to build trust and confidence in themselves, our leadership, and the American public. Among the things I've learned during my career is that you must be honest with everyone about everything.”
“Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.”
“My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.”

Source : Bethany Hamilton (2012). “Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family and Fighting to Get Back on the Board”, p.8, Simon and Schuster