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I read the story "How to Build a Fire." A moral/philisophical statement that i extracted from this story is dont ever just do things to get the easy way out just because they take less time.  This route is a high risk one where things wont be "measured twice and cut one."  bad things may happen when you rush through something without doing checks and balances.  In the story "How to Build a Fire," the adventurer decides to make a fire under a snow covered tree limb because he thought it would keep the fire from going out in the snow.  The snow melted and fell off of the tree limb and put out the fire.  This is an example of not thinking through the situation and all of the possible outcomes.  Therefore, always "measure twice, and cut once."