“Good triumphs over evil when it’s better organized, better trained, better armed, sneakier, and gutsier than evil.”

—  Malcolm Azania , book The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad

Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 56 “At Last, the Box, Explained” (p. 320)

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