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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

"Survivors can't always choose their methods."

"You can't expect a wolf to play with you and not eventually bite."

"Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived."

"Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored."

"Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy."

"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs."

"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."
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"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."
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