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    Karl Braungart
    “This assignment is my duty to perform for the US Army. My job is outside your command, my friend. You know my security clearance level remains the same. Copying the SCI is a safety measure, in case there is an electrical glitch. So, I believe we’ve talked enough about this subject. Agree?”
    ― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity
    tags: classified, corps, lies, military, nuclear-waste, secrets, syria, tactics, us-v-corps
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    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    “Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the
    sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the
    best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.”
    ― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever
    tags: compassion, desert, encourageing, fearless, inspirational, mystical, nature, passion, reflections, wild
    113 likes

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    A.R. Merrydew
    “Steve shook his head in amazement. ‘If that GOD person hadn’t left that case, we wouldn’t have any of this.’
         Thomas agreed. ‘Personally, I can’t praise him enough.’     ”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: ai, androids, colonies, fantasy, fast-paced, fear, future, love, romance, weapons
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    Ralph Ellison
    “For history records the patterns of men's lives, they say: Who slept with whom and with what results; who fought and who won and who lived to lie about it afterwards. All things, it is said, are duly recorded--all things of importance, that is. But not quite, for actually it is only the known, the seen, the heard and only those events that the recorder regards as important that are put down, those lies his keepers keep their power by. But the cop would be Clifton's historian, his judge, his witness, and his executioner, and I was the only brother in the watching crowd. And I, the only witness for the defense, knew neither the extent of his guilt nor the nature of his crime. Where were the historians today? And how would they put it down?”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: african-american, history, police-brutality
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    Tom Robbins
    “In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.”
    ― Tom Robbins
    tags: joke, life
    82 likes

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    Angie Thomas
    “Because it won't change if we don't say something.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: fear, justice, racism, silence
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    Edith Wharton
    “The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.”
    ― Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance
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    Muriel Barbery
    “What is the purpose of intelligence if it is not to serve others?”
    ― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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    Clement Clarke Moore
    “of toys—and St. Nicholas too.”
    ― Clement C. Moore, A Visit From Saint Nicholas
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    William Kely McClung
    “She was overwhelmed with a premonition. Deja vu but from the future, looking back to this moment looking forward.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
    tags: brutal, danger, destruction, graphic, horror, mystery, raw
    66 likes

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    Steven Decker
    “I wondered what the Teacher would do if I refused, but I had no reason to. I found him to be a fascinating ... being, and I enjoyed his company.”
    ― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind
    tags: action, dark, fascinating, fast-paced, fear, gripping, love, mysterious, mystery, rules
    60 likes

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    John Payton Foden
    “At the edge of the field Silva and Stefan witnessed heartrending images in greyscale as thousands of desperate refugees streamed down the road in leaden shades of melancholy.  This somber line of tired and dirty humans moved so close together that they jostled each other with each step; their random movements reminded Silva of corks bobbing in a slow moving stream.  They watched them pass from the side of the road, but eventually fell-in, trudging along with the suffering others, feeling safer in numbers, hoping for a destination worth finding.”
    ― John Payton Foden, Magenta
    tags: anguish, deception, drama, fast-paced, fiction, history, insecurity, soldiers, war
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    Dale A. Jenkins
    “Yamamoto sensed a feeling of culmination about the huge success of the first strike, and the same incisive intuition that guided his brilliant moves at the gaming tables told him what the next move on the bridge of Akagi would be. In (Vice Admiral) Nagumo he knew his man. Nagumo had never been committed to the Pearl Harbor mission. He had not been Yamamoto’s choice to command the Striking Force; his assignment was the decision of the Navy Ministry in Tokyo, based on seniority. While the exultation of the officers and sailors on his staff swirled around him, Yamamoto sat quietly. Finally, he fixed a steely gaze on his chief of staff, and in a low, intense voice: “Admiral Nagumo is going to withdraw.”
    ― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
    tags: death, documents, facts, insight, lies, midway, momentous, naval, navy, victory
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    Elizabeth Kostova
    “I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?”
    ― Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves
    tags: art, museum
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    Dalton Trumbo
    “The airplane said Mr. Hargraves would cut down the distance between nations and peoples. The airplane would be a great instrument in making people understand one another in making people love one another. The airplane said Mr. Hargraves was ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity and mutual understanding. Everyone would be friends said Mr. Hargraves when the airplane knitted the world together so that the people of the world understood each other.”
    ― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
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    Voltaire
    “No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “Sorry Marion.”
    ― Hubert Selby
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    Karl Marx
    “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
    ― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Geneva peace accords said that it recognized the nationality and fundamental rights of the Vietnamese people including their sovereignty, their territory and unity. Due to the Geneva Conference allowing the imperialist combined forces of the Franco-USA coalition, on the one hand to hold South Vietnam under the 17th parallel and allowing the National resistance by the People of Vietnam to hold the north on the other, it stopped the Vietnamese from completely liberating their country. (Vein, 2009)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war
    162 likes



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