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The Dragon Reborn (Wheel of Time, #3)

by Robert Jordan

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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

by Joe Abercrombie

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In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran – A Stunning Insider Account of Post-Revolutionary Life and the Hearts and Minds of Tehran

by Christopher de Bellaigue

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Michael’s Quotes

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism, politics

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“It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”
― Joseph Stalin

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“It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

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“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women

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