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George Siehl said:
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I love it when a thriller plot element seems relevant to a current news topic. Steve Berry's 2016 novel The 14th Colony does just that. The 14th Colony means Canada and the inclusion in America's Articles of Confederation. There, the Founders held ou
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“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time.”
― The Last Continent
― The Last Continent
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
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“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”
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“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
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