"Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning."

Adventure, Danger, Violence, Awareness, Survival

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"I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means."

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"The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring."

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"Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware."

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