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“The world is whatever we make it. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
― Dennis K. Hausker, Evanshard Glade

“Unfortunately, much of the important information Ambassador Grew sent to Washington was largely overlooked or ignored, and dialogue between Washington and Tokyo was strained. This state of affairs is indicated by Grew’s cable on July 10, 1941, in which he pointed out that he had to go to the British ambassador in Tokyo, Sir Robert Craigie, to find out about discussions between the State Department and the Japanese ambassador in Washington. This occurred because the State Department kept the British ambassador in Washington abreast of events, who promptly informed the foreign secretary in London, who in turn informed their ambassador in Tokyo. Sir Robert then kindly passed the information to Ambassador Grew.”
― 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

“We are narrow thinkers, we are noisy thinkers, and it is very easy to improve upon us.”
― ajay agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

“This can only be an urgent call at this late hour.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
― Nikolas Schreck

“Then she paused, and I could hear the churning sound of her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and could feel the hot breath on my neck. Then the skin of my throat began to tingle as one’s flesh does when the hand that is to tickle it approaches nearer- nearer. I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited- waited with beating heart.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“So remember,” said Mr. Kidswatter. “And please be careful! Always check to see if a door is open before going through it. And if it’s not open, open it.”
― Louis Sachar, Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

“I promise loyalty. I promise secrecy. And I promise courage.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One

“Y, sin embargo, me sentia irritada cada vez que alguien venia a preguntar como habia muerto y a decir que era una lastima que una persona tan joven muriese asi, cuando tanta gente inutil e incapaz seguia viviendo a*o tras a*o, como un verdadero estorbo para la sociedad”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“Om is the bow, the arrow is soul,”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent