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Front-Ranger:
"Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now. A foraging wild creature, intent above all on survival, is as strong as the grass."

Richard Adams, Watership Down

Kerry:

"I clearly see that my life was only an imprudent dash between the cradle and the tomb across open country and under fire."

The Naked Civil Servant

Quentin Crisp

Front-Ranger:
"'This statue commemorates the loyalty of a dog who sat by his master's grave in the Greyfriars Kirkyard for fourteen years. He never left his post.' .... such loyalty did exist, and not just amongst dogs. People stuck by each other for years and years, in the face of all the odds, and it should be relief, not disbelief, that one felt on witnessing it."

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, Alexander McCall Smith

delalluvia:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.  Specialization is for insects.

and

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.  Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything — you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

- Robert A. Heinlein, The Books of Lazarus Long and If this goes on

Front-Ranger:
All falcons are hawks, but not all hawks are falcons.

C. J. Box, Winterkill

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