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I have watched the workings of Fortune; I know her genius for envious dealings with [Hu]Mankind; and I also know that her empire is most absolute over just those oases in life in which the victim fancies his sojourn the most delectable and most secure.

—Polybius, Histories, 146 BC

Let’s keep each other alive. Let’s help each other out here.

—Wesley Smith, Grand Canyon river guide, 1996