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• Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

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  Couple, Jigsaw Puzzles, Touching

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

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  Growing Up, Mirrors, Expression

  "The growing, feeling house of the future" by Diane Ackerman, archive.thedailystar.net. August 25, 2012.

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• Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

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  Ideas, Space, Flying

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• Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

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  Memories, Men, Lost

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

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  Block, Luxury, People

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• Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

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  Soul, Body, Danger

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.267, Vintage

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• We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

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  Spiritual, Animal, May

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• After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

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  Coffee, Flavor, Bitter

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.141, Vintage

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• Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

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  Memories, Creativity, Emotional

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• Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

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  Marriage, Children, Creative

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

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  Country, Eye, Animal

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• Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

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  Brain, Trying, Causes

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

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  Struggle, Journey, Garden

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• In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

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  Dog, Horse, Cat

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• the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

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  Religious, May, Threat

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.106, Vintage

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• Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

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  Art, People, Inner Life

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.7, Vintage

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• Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

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  Rowdy, Alligators, Wells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.64, Vintage

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• Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

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  Ghouls, Safety, Usual

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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• It's animal by animal that you save a species.

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  Animal, Animal Rights, Species

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.19, Vintage

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• Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Self

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• Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

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  Bats, Adults, Fur

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.18, Vintage

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• ... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

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  Love Is, Uprising, Mutiny

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.39, Vintage

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