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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand

Cultural diversity gives it a flavor not like any other city in the world. But you're also talking about a city built in the middle of swamps.

Michael Murphy

Some people don't get the gravity of the situation here; people in the Green Zone are always trying to paint a rosy picture, ... These politicians are all about sending people to war but they don't know what it's all about, being over here and getting shot at, walking through s--- swamps, having bombs go off, hearing bullets fly by. They have no idea what that's like.

Antonio Molina

Colonizers escaped (to mountainous areas) to avoid the swamps that bred malaria. Those areas are no longer safe.

Paul Epstein

The path that leads to a loaf of bread, Winds through the swamps of toil; And the path that leads to a suit of clothes, Goes through a flowerless soil, And the paths that lead to the loaf of bread, And the suit of clothes are hard to tread.

Sam Walter Foss