‘Never was any such event so inevitable yet so completely unforeseen’ ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
“The issue was not whether Kennedy and Khrushchev wanted to control events; it was whether they could.”
― One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
― One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
“The Bank of England distributes the nation’s money regionally in this way to avoid the danger of a single calamitous incident at one building destroying its stock of bank notes. This is important because, despite cheques and plastic, the public still uses a vast amount of cash. Approximately £37 billion is fluttering around the national economy daily in paper money.”
― Heist: The True Story of the World's Biggest Cash Robbery
― Heist: The True Story of the World's Biggest Cash Robbery
“The universe is bad; and men are fools, never really all on the same side in any war.”
― Berserker
― Berserker
“All this natural misery,” Dr. Goodsir said suddenly. “Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse? Can you answer me that, Mr. Hickey?”
― The Terror
― The Terror
“Twice before in his life Nomis had tried to raise a storm. Only once had he been successful, and the persistent suspicion remained that on that occasion the storm might have come anyway. At the height of the gale there had persisted a shade of doubt, a feeling that the ordering of such forces was beyond his powers or those of any man. Doubtful as he was of present success, he persisted in the effort that had kept him almost sleepless on this secret rock for the past three days. Such was the fear and hatred he felt for the man he knew must now be crossing the sea toward him, coming with a new god and new advisers to assume the rule of this country called Queensland.”
― Berserker Brother Assassin
― Berserker Brother Assassin
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