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“always free            to change your mind and                choose a different future, or                  a different                      past.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“There is    no such thing as a problem       without a gift for you              in its hands.       You seek problems     because you need       their gifts.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
― Richard Bach

“for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they’re       yours.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“North Korea bought its first dozen MiG-29s from Belarus in 1995, as the worst part of the Great Famine began, at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars. That would have been enough to feed every hungry North Korean man, woman, and child for two years. Estimates of Great Famine deaths ranged between two to three and a half million. As a result, these dozen MiG-29s had probably killed more people than any others in history, without firing a shot.”
― Ted Halstead, The Second Korean War

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it’s found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don’t care, but they’re massively outnumbered by the people who do. And because of that, I had billions of people on my side. Pretty cool, eh?”
― Andy Weir, The Martian