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Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
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It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.
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Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
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... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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