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The Humans

by Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)

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World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

by Will Tuttle

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by Kahlil Gibran

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“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: oppression, power, terrorism, torture

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“The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: blowback, terrorism

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“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

tags: authors, disappointment, epigrams, fandom, on-writing, similes, writers

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“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”
― Barbara Bloom

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“They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.

'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.”
― John Champlin Gardner, Grendel

tags: fiction, historical-fiction, last-lines, literature, retelling

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