I have heard the predictable slew...

I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They don’t want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they do want to hurt. They want to scare me because fear is the only way they have learned to feel powerful.

- Thomm Quackenbush

Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition: A Reference Handbook

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You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.

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You belong to the world. Don’t be afraid to be a part of it.

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God has planned the world too perfectly for me to doubt that everyone is where they are supposed to be.

- Thomm Quackenbush

When I see the moon on a clear night, I do say "blessed be" and I remind myself to be grateful to the universe that I happen to exist in such a lovely and wondrous world, even and especially as I can rattle on about magma cooling, abiogenesis, and natural selection.

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Making love, sensing how he felt about her in the high tide of passion, seeing herself through his eyes, brought her to an ecstasy beyond words.

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Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation.

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