The Taking
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In a troubled culture where cream often settled on the bottom and the palest milk rose to the top,
“don’t believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect—” “—intended us to forgo their use?”
― Origin
― Origin
“A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds.”
― The Atlantis Plague
― The Atlantis Plague
“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”
― Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
― Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
“riding in an airboat is like being vaulted onto a plain of ice, an overpowered airplane propeller strapped to your butt.”
― Everglades
― Everglades
“Whatever task you’ve taken, whatever fight you’re facing, you must bring to it nothing less than everything you’ve got, or otherwise you’ll fail for sure and always wonder what might have been if only you had given your all.”
― Ricochet Joe
― Ricochet Joe
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