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You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

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A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

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My future is one I must make myself.

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One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

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Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies ...more

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A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

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She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the s...more

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I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

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A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

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To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.

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Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to ...more