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This Would Be A Tricky Operation, No Doubt Of That, And A Mistake Would Probably Be Fatal. So Many Things He Had Done Over The Years Would Have Been Fatal, Had His Luck Not Been Strongly Good. He Had Cheated Death Dozens Of Times, But That Did Not Mean He Could Take It As A Given. A Man Needed Only One Fatal Mistake To End The Game.

You Can't Embrace Your Whole Life If You're Shut Down. I Found Out That I Can't Just Run Away And Shut Down. I'm Losing The Rest Of My Life Doing That.

He'd Once Heard A Story About A Monastery On The Top Of Some Mountain In Japan Or Somewhere. After A Long Trek In The Cold To Get There, The Monks Would Offer To Sell You A Cup Of Coffee. You Had A Choice: There Was A Two-dollar Cup - Or A Two-hundred- Dollar Cup. When Pressed To Explain The Difference, The Monks Were Reported To Say, 'a Hundred And Ninety-eight Dollars.'

We Have Focused Only On The Negatives, And Not Enough On Incredible Stories Of The Human Spirit And Of Rebirth And Rebuilding. That's Equally Important As The Tragedy.

Humans Suffer From Self-centred Notions As To The Nature Of Life. Humans Assume That Alien Life Forms Should Conform To Standards That Match Our Own, Including Logic And Morality. Even Among Humans, Morality Is Ignored When Expedient. Why Should We Expect More From An Alien Life Form Than We Demand From Ourselves?