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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Book by Blaine Harden · 3 quotes · Humanity, Cooperation, Evolutionary Psychology

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“I am evolving from being an animal,' he said. 'But it is going very, very slowly. Sometime I try to cry and laugh like other people, just to see if it feels like anything. Yet tears don't come. Laughter doesn't come.”

Humanity Recovery

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“High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il's camps, and did nothing.”

War Humanity Justice Ignorance

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“Their relationship echoed, in many ways, the binds of trust and mutual protection that kept prisoners alive and sane in Nazi concentration camps. In those camps, researchers found, the "basic unit of survival" was the pair, not the individual.”

Survival Cooperation Evolutionary Psychology Interdependence Mutual Aid Symbiotic Relationship Species Longevity

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