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We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Prosaist
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Richard Bach
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Wars
Adventure
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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
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There's so much to learn! And just when we think, I've got it. I really understand what's going on, we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.
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Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.
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One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten
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Whatever enchants also guides and protects.
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Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.
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Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
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We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!
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Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!
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