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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn’t own doodley-squat, so they couldn’t improve their surroundings. So they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
Henry Adams described the American of 1801 in these words: “Stripped for the hardest work, every muscle firm and elastic, every ounce of brain ready for use, and not a trace of superfluous flesh on his nervous and supple body, the American stood in the world a new order of man.”13 Adams was generalizing, but he could have been describing Meriwether Lewis.
Undaunted Courage
Stephen E. Ambrose
Whenever someone suggested another feature, Hawkins would pull out the wooden block and ask them where it would fit.
Made to Stick
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
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