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"Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you."
"Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis."
"The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors."
"Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor."
"[T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure."
"I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create."
"There will always be survivors."
"And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world."
"Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired."
"Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools"
"History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated."
"Of all the subjects I have photographed, the most controversial and the one that has moved me the most has to be the prostitutes who are getting on in years. They are true survivors."
"I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor."
