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Red Widow

by Alma Katsu (Goodreads Author)

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Battle Station

by Ben Bova

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Ralph’s Quotes

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth

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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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