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“America is like an exotic hothouse plant. It can only live now in the artificial environment of vaccinations, sterilization, and antibiotics we started creating a hundred or more years ago.”
― William R. Forstchen, One Second After

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the world. In some ways you were way easier on them, and in others, much harder.”
― Elizabeth Noble, Things I Want My Daughters to Know

“Everything is covered in dirt and dust here.”

“You haven’t seen real dirt. Dirt is the gunk that smells like death itself, builds up on the sides of the street. Nothing can clean it off. That under your boot is soil. Everything good on this earth is made from it or made clean by it.”
― Dianna Rostad, You Belong Here Now