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“Feel free to start using Walter Jackson Freeman II as an insult directed toward people you hate. Almost no one will get the reference, but if I am in the room we’ll high-five and it will be awesome.”
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
“Whenever someone casually refers to “the history of civilization” in a way that does not jibe with the history of civilization as I extensively, constantly, read about it, I like to research their favorite books to see where they are getting their information. In most of these cases all their favorite books have titles like Christmas, Guns, and Integrity.”
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
“Pretending any historical age before proper indoor plumbing was a glorious epoch is a ludicrous delusion.”
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
“Here are some things that diseases don’t make people:
• Cool
• Poetic
• Sexy
• Classy
• Genius
Here is one thing they do make people:
• Dead”
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
• Cool
• Poetic
• Sexy
• Classy
• Genius
Here is one thing they do make people:
• Dead”
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
“We’re stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we’re always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
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