"The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient."

-- Edward Abbey

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“After 20 years in special operations trust me, I know my body.”
“I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought...this was going to be some rough encounter because there's Poido getting the last rites before the test's even started”
“There's something when you're always immersed in the natural landscape where it becomes your healer, in a way, at the same time that it also becomes sort of frightening. I guess that's how I see things, in that form of duality.”

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“New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.”
“We suffered for our music. Now, it's your turn.”
“When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.”
“I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.”
“The joy is in creating, not maintaining.”

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