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Philip Gourevitch
“Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.”
Philip Gourevitch

“The Jews hated us, and the Arabs despised their once allies. We'd walked away and left the country at war.”
Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

Alexander Hamilton
“By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

Sara Pascoe
“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“The contemplative clinking and methodical chewing are a little weird, but it is proof that souls are housed
inside the physical body.”
Tom Hillman, Digging for God

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