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Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

by Paul Kengor

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For the Vindication of the Truth: Baptist Symbolics Volume 1

by James M. Renihan

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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The night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to the water as it splashed the river-walls of the Island of Paris, where the picturesque confusion of houses and cathedral shone bright in the light of the moon, the day came ...more

Philip’s Quotes

“He calleth things that are not, as though they were. What are only actually done with us in time, were truly present with him before all time, who is not included in any time.”
― Edward Drapes

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“Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Truth

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“Do today’s Marxist activists have any reason to say they hate above anyone else in the world the church leaders most celebrated by our cultural elites? Or do they find that these shepherds not only don’t hinder, but even help their cause?”
― Megan Basham, Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

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“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God’s wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition.”
― Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

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“Nobody told you what a drag it was, getting older. Or at least, people did tell you, but you ignored them, because they were old.”
― Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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