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“Knowing that masks donned in time could protect against gas, they began loading shells with sneezing powder, which seeped through the masks’ filters.”
― Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918
― Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918
“A WAR COMES ALWAYS to someone else.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“But even if a person were ignorant of such things, the sight of a moving train held aloft above the great gorge at Niagara by so delicate a contrivance was, in the 1860’s, nothing short of miraculous. The bridge seemed to defy the most fundamental laws of nature. Something so slight just naturally ought to give way beneath anything so heavy. That it did not seemed pure magic.”
― The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
― The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
“Later, following the funeral, he took all the family’s horses, including his own, up into one of the mountain ravines and shot them.”
― The Path Between the Seas
― The Path Between the Seas
“Such anti-tobacco animus helps explain a glaring paradox within public-health circles: Many public-health experts avidly embrace harm reduction for other conditions—needle exchange and methadone for heroin addicts, “wet” public housing for people who continue to drink, condom distribution and HPV vaccination for sexually active adolescents—but, for nicotine addiction, they urge abstinence and downplay the importance of a less risky alternative.”
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