"Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country."

Survival, Humor, Pain, Escape

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"Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country."

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"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion."

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"A wolf only attends a rabbit's funeral to eat its young."

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"There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination."

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"I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but we're here, we're alive, we're the human race, we have survived wars and terrorism and scarcity and global famine, and we have made it back from the brink, not once but many times. History is not a suicide note - it's a record of our survival."

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"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."

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"A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also tended to do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation."

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"The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger."

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"The rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries."

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"She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died."

Identity

"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

Home

"Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves."

Happiness

"If that's the example you want set, you be the example."

Leadership

"I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life."

Mental Health

"It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks."

Knowledge

"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."

Reading

"Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her."

Choice

"Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life."

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"How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good."

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