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Dale A. Jenkins
“In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilitated and marshaled himself, despite severe pain, to press on with his career in politics. Eleven years later, delivering his message of confidence and optimism, he was elected President of the United States. ”
Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

Dorothy Allison
“Romantic love continues the status quo in which we both are victimized and victimize each other.”
Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature

Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Alan Weisman
“Las dioxinas, sin embargo, fueron involuntarias, ya que se trata de subproductos formados cuando se mezclan hidrocarburos con cloro, con resultados persistentes y desastrosos. Aparte de su papel perturbador de las hormonas en los cambios sexuales, su aplicación más infame antes de que se prohibieran fue en el denominado «agente naranja», un defoliante utilizado para despojar de vegetación selvas vietnamitas enteras a fin de que los insurgentes no tuvieran dónde ocultarse. Entre 1964 y 1971, Estados Unidos roció Vietnam con 45 millones de litros de agente naranja. Cuatro décadas después, las selvas más fuertemente afectadas todavía no han vuelto a crecer. En su lugar abunda ahora una especie herbácea, el cogón, considerada una de las peores malas hierbas de todo el mundo.”
Alan Weisman, El mundo sin nosotros

John Payton Foden
“Thierry was one.  An award winning documentary film producer based in Paris.  Her curiosity was not driven so much by his fame or talent, with which he was generously endowed on both counts, but by his elusiveness.  He had a reputation for chasing the most complicated and dangerous assignments that others considered too risky.  He had money for all occasions.  He had a reputation among men as a man with a reputation among women.”
John Payton Foden, Magenta

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