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John Payton

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Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)

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"Okay - I can get behind the oligarchs who can't get anything done because they can't work together. And that they were responsible for the degradation of Earth.

I kind of like the mantis shrimp.

And I think I could appreciate Alice. if only I could figure out her frickin' TIMELINE." — Mar 31, 2026 10:31PM

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The Last Night

by Steve McElhenny

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Another Stupid Spell (Another Stupid Trilogy #1)

by Bill Ricardi (Goodreads Author)

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"Is he gonna get into the Academy or not? At least the instructors seem chill." — Oct 29, 2024 09:31PM

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John’s Quotes

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: bible, god, hatred, judgement, religion

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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
― Stephen Colbert

tags: christ, christian, christian-behavior, poor, religion, selfish

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