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• I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

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  Mind, Despair, Astonishment

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.304, Pan Macmillan

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• HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED

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  Love, Happiness, Peace

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• As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

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  Mean, Vocabulary, People

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

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  Couple, Mistake, Thinking

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team, recounts his deployment to Iraq with unflinching candor, and in the process exposes crucial truths not only about this particular conflict, but also about war throughout history. Castner's memoir brings to mind Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front.

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  Military, War, Team

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 09, 2012

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• Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions. The latter texts simply enjoy the considerable advantage of having made their public debut in the shadowy recesses of the ancient past, and are thus much harder to refute.

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  Book, Past, Mind

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

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  Epic, Journey, Odyssey

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

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  Running, Should

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

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  Believe, Want Something, Desire

  Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

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  Dream, Climbing, Appreciate

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 22, 2012

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• And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why-- which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.

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  Dark, Long, Understanding

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.301, Pan Macmillan

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• But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

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  Nature, Travel, Energy

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking above all else, something like a state of grace.

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  Pain, Climbing, Order

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Aug 27, 2011

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• Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

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  Reality, Hopeless Romantic, Publicity

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

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  Dream, Climbing, Mountain

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

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  Long, Might, Fischer

  Jon Krakauer (1998). “Into Thin Air”, p.175, Anchor

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• It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.

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  Mean, Intelligent, Missing

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

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  Running, What If, Arms

  "Into the Wild". m.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long timeand it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.My point is that you do not need me or anyone elseThe only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness

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  Moving, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

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  Thinking, Careers, Want

  "Into the Wild". m.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.

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  Mean, Feminist, Brain

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• Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.

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  Oxygen, Ice, Wind

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

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  Autism, Heaven, Projects

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• When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex.

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  Atheist, Believe, Boys

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• At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.

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  Cutting, Long, Parent

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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