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    Dean Mafako
    “The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training” to “protect our culture,” while they simultaneously paid $2 million a year for Dr. Porter to destroy it. It was a laughable facade, but instead I wanted to cry.”
    ― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
    tags: action, drama, family-life, fiction, personal-growth, realistic, stress, strife, thriller
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    Claudia Clark
    “As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: admiration, bonds, controversies, democracy, friends, influential, leaders, policy, research, respec
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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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    Michael G. Kramer
    “I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a preemptive strike against the French by launching “Operation Bright Moon”, which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ětat which will disarm the Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!”  

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war
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    “Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
    that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
    through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
    to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
    know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
    ― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever
    tags: biography, dreams, events, journey, life, life-journey, memoir, travel, true
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    Karl Braungart
    “I’ll be frank, Jerry. Aaron Morris telephoned here a week ago and wanted to know your whereabouts. I told him you were on leave. He said your wife called him about your whereabouts.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity
    tags: cic, conditioned, deployment, intrigue, lies, military-intelligence, russia, soldiers, spies
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    George Orwell
    “ليس هنالك غير أربع طرق لإزاحة فئة حاكمة عن سدة الحكم ، فإما يتم قهرها من قبل عدو خارجي ، أو أن تحكم بطريقة تعوزها الكفاءة وهو ما يدفع الجماهير للثورة ، أو تسمح لمجموعة من الطبقة الوسطى القوية والساخطة بالتشكل والظهور أو تتزعزع ثقتها بذاتها وتفقد الإرادة في الحكم.”
    ― جورج أورويل, 1984
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    Suzanne Collins
    “No one knows what to do with you, girlie.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: tigris
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    John Steinbeck
    “Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: drain, gray, observational, people, vitality
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    Thomas Paine
    “Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings, and the Christian world hath improved on the plan, by doing the same to their living ones. How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust!”
    ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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    Annie Dillard
    “The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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