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Князь Феликс Юсупов - Мемуары

by Felix Yusupov

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Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age

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“Once is never. Twice is always.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

tags: epigram, once, pessimism, quip, twice, wisdom

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“If Miller had brought him all this way just to let him die in an abandoned train car, it was the longest prank setup in history.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

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“Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

tags: blindness, explosion, mass-murder, plague, planet, space-exploration, terrorists

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“That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

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“I love the period of rotation. Thirty hours. You can get in a full day’s work, stay up getting drunk at the saloon, and still get a full night’s sleep. I don’t know why we didn’t think of this back home.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

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