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“With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“Fortitudine vincimus—“By endurance we conquer.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“He smiled and stood up. “Because that’s what life is. A constant climb. Eternal growth. The continual battle against entropy. It doesn’t matter what the destination is, or what’s at the top; all that matters is that you keep climbing. That’s what it means to be alive, Harold. That’s what it means to be human.”
― Nicholas Binge, Ascension