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That he was outnumbered did not matter because the whole world had outnumbered him long ago, and what do numbers matter?
“There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.”
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
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“Nothing burns like the cold.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”
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“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.”
― Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
― Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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