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“Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might have been was now hindsight—the United States was at war and was in it to win. He spoke quietly to his secretary, Grace Tully. “Sit down, Grace. I’m going before Congress tomorrow. I’d like to dictate my message. It will be short.” ”
― 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

“Individual Desirability / Aggregate Desirability = Your Desirability Ratio

The higher a relationship’s Desirability Ratio, the more stable a relationship will be. If a relationship’s Desirability Ratio drops below one for either partner, the relationship becomes very likely to dissolve.

To put that in other words: When your partner is much more desirable to you than their “league” would suggest, and when this dynamic is mutual (i.e., each partner values the other more than society on average values that other partner), your relationship will be uniquely stable. However, if either partner values the other less than that person would be valued on an open market, the relationship becomes unstable.”
― Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships

“Stefan, please, get to work.  Take a picture of this.
You want a photo? Of this?
War in all its ugliness.  A Pulitzer Prize awaits.
You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime?
Yes.  I do.
You understand they can’t be untaken.
Proceed.”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

“Have you been having the dreams?” asked Dani.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

“Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

“Lynny's solution was better. Just fade out, until you were ready to fade back in.”
― Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

“There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
― John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867

“At least she didn't suffer”
― Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl

“Something I am wondering:
if you cannot hear
do you have no sounds
in your head?

Do you see
a
silent
movie”
― Sharon Creech, Hate That Cat

“The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.”
― Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence.”
― Nicole Krauss

“The extremity of this bondage is that it is only as a worker that he continues to maintain himself as a physical subject, and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker.”
― Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

“I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“A ram comes always as an astonishment. Do you know what a ram is, Benjamin? R-A-M. A random act of menschlichkeit.”
― Chaim Potok, Old Men at Midnight: Stories

“What does a mirror look at?”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune