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#1

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: resistance

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#2

“If you knew when your last day of life was going to be, it was the best place to spend your last night on earth, because in Russia people party like tomorrow will never come.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: espionage, gmo, russia, spies

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#3

“Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: espionage, political-thriller, spy, thriller

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#4

“Sometimes one man must fight for what he feels is right, even against the majority. Something that is wrong does not change to right just because the majority approves it, ignores it, or the government says it is right. It is still wrong.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: espionage-thriller, political-thriller, thriller

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#5

“Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn’t just snip the desired gene from the bacteria and sew it on to the plant’s DNA sequence like an old woman working on a quilt.”
― Kenneth Eade

tags: espionage-thriller, political-thriller, thriller

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#6

“The sensation was an explosion of feelings, leaving in its place a pleasured memory of that moment. That, thought Seth, was pure heaven”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: espionage, genetically-engineered-foods, gmo, political-thriller

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#7

“Their lips met with a tender and powerful force. At that point, they melted into each other and Seth felt a flush of sensations over his entire being. Hands wandered naturally, and each caress became more exciting and pleasurable. Where the body ended and the soul began was a mystery in this ancient game of combinations.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: first-kiss, political-thriller, romance, sex

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#8

“If you’re not looking for the right thing, you can’t be disappointed if you don’t get it.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: getting-what-you-want, wishing

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#9

“He felt teenage rejection overcoming him like a childhood virus that lies dormant, then attacks the unsuspecting adult. It would never be something he would get used to.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: being-rejected, rejection

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#10

“He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: being-smart

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#11

“Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That’s why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It’s easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: politicians, politics

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#12

“We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: being-human, environment, genetically-engineered-foods

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#13

“Seth’s clock had been set on survival so long that he didn’t realize that he was starving himself of an essential element of being, that of having fun”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: having-fun

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#14

“Seth discovered that night that he had two extra stomachs; one for vodka and one for overeating.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: drinking

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#15

“First the FSB agent, and now the FBI. It was becoming a real alphabet soup of international espionage.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: espionage

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#16

“There was a chemical solution to all of America’s food needs, which had been whittled away for years and years and honed down with precision to train the public that everything they needed to put on the table for their family came in a box, bottle or can.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: genetically-engineered-foods, gmo

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#17

“He was a playboy type in his late 30’s, and a sharp dresser, tonight being no exception. Dave wore a designer sports jacket and chic designer jeans; not at all what you would expect from an FBI agent’s undercover expense budget. His wife (or whoever she was), Julia, was a conservative dresser, with more of what you would expect an FBI agent to be wearing. She had mousy brown hair, spoke in nasal tones, and was somewhat frumpy; not much to look at. They went together about as well as Brad Pitt and a den mother from Davenport Iowa.”
― kenneth eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: mismatched-couples

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#18

“It was a puzzle for men how women never got tired of shopping, even if there was nothing to buy”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: difference-between-men-and-women, shopping

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#19

“Leave it to a woman to notice all of the little details that men often ignore.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: difference-between-men-and-women

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#20

“When I left, Mr. Chairman, I had the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Has that right been stripped from the American people while I was gone?”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: bill-of-rights, freedom-of-speech

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#21

“I think you know how it works, Senator. The big chemical companies fill the coffers of one of your colleagues who is a lawmaker from an agricultural state such as, well, let’s take Iowa, for example, and the lawmaker recommends the president to install industry executives in high positions, such as the head of the FDA or the EPA, and, this way, the industry can approve its own products without safety testing.”
― kenneth eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: epa, fda, genetically-engineered-foods, the-revolving-door

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#22

“And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass. If you don’t know what it says, don’t vote for it.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: congress, lawmaking, passing-laws, politics-of-the-united-states

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#23

“The FDA and the EPA are supposed to be protecting us, not the people who make the poison.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: epa, fda, genetically-engineered-foods, gmo, political-philosophy, politics

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#24

“You will always be a puppet on someone else’s line if you don’t care enough about the big picture to let your tiny voice be heard. When it is combined with the tiny voices of millions of others that is the real power.”
― kenneth eade, An Involuntary Spy

tags: collective-will, making-yourself-heard, petitions, power-in-numbers

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#25

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#26

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin

tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women

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#27

“He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”
― George Carlin

tags: equality, feminism, feminist, george-carlin, god, men-and-women, religion

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#28

“The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.”
― Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill

tags: federal-court, law, rules, rules-of-war, trial

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#29

“Nothing is easy,” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.”
― Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill

tags: difficulty, law, lawyers

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#30

“Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor”
― Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill

tags: emotions, jury, jury-trials, law, lawyers, trials

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