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This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

Loren Eiseley

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Loren Eiseley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 3
Died: 1977
Died: July 9
Anthropologist
Naturalist
Philosopher
Poet
Science Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Lonely
Projection
Capable
Extension
Vision
Extensions
Humanity
Magnificent
Lives
Empathy
Power
Reaching
Life
Enormous
Supreme
Epitome

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