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The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method for this generation's short attention span. The chapters in this small book can be read in any order, and are simple and easy to understand. Each story, inspirational qu

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“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”

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Tagged: Talent, Destroy

“If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.”

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Tagged: Reality, Dream, Fantasy

“I’m numb and I’m tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I’m soaked to the skin with emotion.”

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Tagged: Numbness, Tiredness, emotions, Pain, Feelings

“I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I’ve got what amounts to a religion, now.”

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“Ignorance is fatal.”

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“We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.”

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“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”

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“The rocket stood in the cold winter morning, making summer with every breath of its mighty exhausts. The rocket made climates, and summer lay for a brief moment upon the land.”

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“Timothy looked at the deep ocean sky, trying to see Earth and the war and the ruined cities and the men killing each other since the day he was born. But he saw nothing. The war was as removed and far off as two flies battling to the death in the arch of a great high and silent cathedral. And just a…”

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“The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”

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“I’m being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite.”

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“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future,…”

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“The Animal does not question life. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.”

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Tagged: Animals, Life, enjoy life

“We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were a…”

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Tagged: Faith, Life, Art, Religion

“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.”

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Tagged: Life, Questions, enjoy life

“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”

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Tagged: Fear, Future, Past, present

“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”

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Tagged: Art, Miracles, Science