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Cathy Cathy said: " Clear prose combined with Halberstam's insight and compelling story telling. If you want to know how and why the Vietnam debacle came to be, this book is excellent. ...more "

 
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Cathy Cathy said: " Read this book! The author traces the history and affect of cryptography through the centuries and makes the concepts deceptively simple. Lucid and well-written the book explains the need, importance and place of cryptography in our lives. "

 
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19  So go right up to Nestor, breaker of horses.
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George Eliot
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot

Hunter S. Thompson
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Bill Watterson
“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

William Shakespeare
“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Raymond Chandler
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”
Raymond Chandler, Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories

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