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I also learned that I didn’t matter; that I was insignificant to the Father, that my wants, needs and desires would always be subordinate to his will. His will—that haphazard collection of infantile wants and limitless power. The Father’s
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“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”
― The Note Books Of Samuel Butler
― The Note Books Of Samuel Butler
“The point could hardly have been clearer: if the president was pressuring the director because he feared that an investigation of Michael Flynn would damage him, then this was an obstruction of justice.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“Blessed be they who are not Patriots and Idealists, and who do not feel they must dash right in and Do Something About It, something so immediately important that all doubters must be liquidated—tortured—slaughtered! Good old murder, that since the slaying of Abel by Cain has always been the new device by which all oligarchies and dictators have, for all future ages to come, removed opposition!”
― It Can't Happen Here
― It Can't Happen Here
“Alas, politics itself has more and more become a discrete business. Its appeal is B-to-B—business-to-business. The real swamp is the swamp of insular, inbred, incestuous interests. This isn’t corruption so much as overspecialization. It’s a wonk’s life. Politics has gone one way, the culture another. The left-right junkies might pretend otherwise, but the great middle doesn’t put political concerns at the top of their minds.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Alex R. Germain’s 2025 Year in Books
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