“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.”
― Red Doc>
― Red Doc>
“Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.”
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“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans,” Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition.”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August
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