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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

by Vincent Bevins (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 01, 2024 10:52AM

“Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.”
― Sebastian Junger, War

tags: war

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“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

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“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: corruption, government, ideology, magnetism, mythology, politics, power, religion, science-fiction

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