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“I never want to see umbrellas around me," he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.”
― The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
― The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
“My geekness is a-quivering.”
― Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
― Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
“In desperate situations, when the normal framework of social order breaks down, ordinary people are rarely as lacking in common sense as those who govern them; the instinct for self-preservation is too strong.”
― The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster, 1609 - 1969
― The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster, 1609 - 1969
“That's how vilification works. The victim ingests the views of his tormentor. If that's how I look, that's what I must be.”
― Shylock Is My Name
― Shylock Is My Name
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― Dataclysm: Who We Are
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