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The downed aviator quickly became the object of an enormous enemy effort to capture him and often to torture and kill him. Why? Because the aviator is capable of inflicting a disproportionate amount of damage on that enemy, far more than
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye
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