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Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right

by Ann Coulter

bookshelves: currently-reading, american-politics, political, media-journalism

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RSV Catholic Bible, Compact Edition

by Oxford University Press

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

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TRE’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Storm of Steel: Original 1929 Translation

The Storm of Steel: Original 1929 Translation by Ernst Jünger

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The fragile body, steeled by the will, stands up to the most terrific punishment.

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“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
― Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

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“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
― H.L. Mencken

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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

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“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: catholic, catholicism, united-states, united-states-of-america

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