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“Mother Nature never nurtures a weakling. Mother Nature throws out the infirm and the dwindling kind. She wants to be watered by the wealth of the worthy people. She strikes down the poor, the illiterate, and the burdens on her soil, by leaving them groveling on the pathway.”

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