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Well, it's a practical approach," she conceded. "But it's not very satisfying. I think an animal in the forest might have that same viewpoint."
"I spend most of my life with the animals in the forest," replied Chandler. "Very few of them have high blood pressure or heart attacks. Maybe they know something we don't know."
"They don't know anything," said Jade. "They just react."
"They stay warm and dry and well fed," he noted. "When all is said and done, that's all most humans are really trying to do.

You measure a man by what he beats, Thaddeus—not by what he avoids.

The mind discerns and decides, and the heart vetoes. It is a very inefficient system.