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The dreams now were simply of staying alive.
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We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.
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Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.
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Blame it on Peer Pressure.
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Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.
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All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
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Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.
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Too much thinking, not enough feeling.
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There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.
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Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
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Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.
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....we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.
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What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.
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Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.
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The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.
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My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.
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I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.
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A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong.
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Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.
John Marsden
Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison
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We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
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