"So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted."

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Achy Obejas

#Granted Quotes

“We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.”
“When I'm told something can't be done, I am inevitably attracted to that particular challenge.”
“The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.”
“In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.”
“Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.”
“We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.”

Source : "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
“They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.”

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