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Necessary Angels: A Journey of Light and Legacy (Biographical Stories)

by RONALD EVERETT RICHARDSON

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Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau

by Jack Sacco

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“Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

tags: good-and-evil, inspirational

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“That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.”
― Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda

tags: beauty, good-and-evil, humanity, infectious-diseases, summary, ugliness, world

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“No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals, or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around and realized that they're so far over the line that they can't remember where it was.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

tags: bad-guys, dresden-files, evil, good-and-evil, villains

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“You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

tags: demotivational, inspirational, motivational

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“Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. Anyone who promises the better world that is guaranteed to last forever is making a false promise; he is overlooking human freedom. Freedom must be constantly won over for the cause of good. Free assent to the good never exists simply by itself. If there were structures which could irrevocably guarantee a determined and good state of the world, man's freedom would be denied, and hence they would not be good structures at all.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Saved in Hope: Spe Salvi

tags: evil, free-will, freedom, good-and-evil, goodness, government

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