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Kevin Wade Johnson began writing fiction in the 1970s, and began getting serious about it in the following decade, becoming a quarter-finalist in the fourth-quarter 1988 Writers of the Future contest.

Fiction had to take a back seat to his thirty-year career within the Defense Department. After five years of active duty in the military, he went from being one of NSA’s premier writers of intelligence reports to becoming a historian in the Center for Cryptologic History. In his over 30 years of government service, he became proficient in four languages; certified as adjunct faculty for nine different courses; created over 100 internal web pages, over 80 entries on the internal blog Write Right, more than 40 training videos (also not publicly a
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"I Alone Can Fix It"


This entry comes from a campaign quote of 2016:

"Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it."

If you don't remember that—or 2016, for that matter—it's understandable.  The party in power likes to keep as much obfuscated as possible, partly by continually manufacturing more controversy.  It's a way of keeping us from thinking about what they've done or are doing. 

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“We heard what we wished to, and suffered all that comes of thinking wishfully and listening selectively.”
― Kevin Wade Johnson

“Who you want to become is far more important than who you once were—your whole future rides on it. ... I do actually see a purpose to guilt. I see a point, a constructive aspect. And I'll put it like this:

Guilt is a reminder that you made a mistake. So feel only as much guilt as is needed to avoid a repeat, and not one iota more.”
― Kevin Wade Johnson

“Think twice, act once.”
― Kevin Wade Johnson

“Where trust goes, love follows.”
― Kevin Wade Johnson

“I'm sorry" is not an admission of guilt. It is an expression of caring.”
― Kevin Wade Johnson

“It's not how you look. It's what I see, when I look into your eyes.”
― Kevin Wade Johnson

“It's not what we are given
It's how we choose to use it”
― Kevin Wade Johnson

“We don't have a lot of choice about the world we live in. But we do have choices about our world-view. ... We read to spend time with inspiring people, to inspire us as we live in our own world. We read to spend time in a better world, a world that can give us insights to improve our own. We read to live in a different world, to improve our perspective on our own.”
― Kevin Wade Johnson

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