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Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror
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Iran welcomed the destructive desires of al-Musawi and Mugniyah, bringing their organizations under its control on June 27, 1983. These two groups would soon become known as Hezbollah, and their signature attack became the suicide car bomb,
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― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is ‘Thou shalt not question!”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“Imagination, after all, costs nothing, it's the living that is the harder part.”
― A Separation
― A Separation
“Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that's not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration there would hardly be any need to daydream. And daydreams return me to my original sense of things and I luxuriate in these fervid primary visions until I am entirely my unalloyed self again. So even though it sometimes feels as if one could just about die from disappointment I must concede that in fact in a rather perverse way it is precisely those things I did not get that are keeping me alive.”
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― Pond
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― Don Quixote
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