The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

Kim Stanley Robinson
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  2. The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

  3. The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

  4. You just don't have faith! " Frank repeated." Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!

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