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Flock, The Gathering of The Damned (The Flock Trilogy #3) by Jana Petken

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He knew his weaknesses and was not afraid to admit to them. But, he was also aware of his strengths and wouldn’t hesitate to employ them.

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“And, finally, for bringing me into this world and making me the man I am today, I owe the greatest debt, a debt I can never repay, to my mother.”
― Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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“Hustling is to work what surfing the Internet is to reading. If you add up how much you read in a year on the Internet—tweets, Facebook posts, lists—you’ve read the equivalent of a shit ton of books, but in fact you’ve read no books in a year.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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“The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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“What I do remember, what I will never forget, is the violence that followed. The triumph of democracy over apartheid is sometimes called the Bloodless Revolution. It is called that because very little white blood was spilled. Black blood ran in the streets. As”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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“In any society built on institutionalized racism, race mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. Race mixing proves that races can mix, and in a lot of cases want to mix. Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race mixing becomes a crime worse than treason.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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