"To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves."

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Source : Melanie McGrath (2009). “Hopping”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

Melanie McGrath

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Source : Alison Jolly (2001). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”, p.9, Harvard University Press
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