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He knew all the charges and was impatient with the prevailing critique of his political persona. “One of the criticisms that got me was, ‘Well, he doesn’t have any vision, he doesn’t have any reason for being there,’ ” Bush recalled. “Well,
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Bush obviously knows that there is incredible disagreement on what counts as "helping" people, what counts as the world being "better," etc. He's dissembling for his diary. Very effectively, I might add.
“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
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“Winter is coming.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”
― Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
― Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
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