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“if you go to war against drugs, drugs will always win. drugs will win because what you’re really doing is going to war against the biological imperative all living things have to find comfort and happiness, and if you’re unwilling or unable to first provide that, artificial alternatives, no matter how destructive, will always prevail.” p403

“yes, it could happen at any moment, it’s true, but if we worry about things we can’t control, we start to ruin the things we can control.” p296

“you fear that decisions are the same as shackles.” pg278

“it’s not like that’s a metaphor or anything about how outsiders crash thru cultures, have their fun, and then leave after they’ve exploited them to the point where they can never possibly recover. and then, generations later, blame them because they still struggle to step up.” p289