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Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)

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The Word on Fire Bible (Volume II): Acts, Letters and Revelation (Leather) (Word on Fire Bible Series)

by Robert Barron

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The Election of Pope Leo XIV: The Last Surprise of Pope Francis

by Gerard O'Connell

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“Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before...you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“I would have followed you. My brother. My captain. My king.”
― JRR Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings

tags: aragorn, boromir, lord-of-the-rings, lord-of-the-rings-movie

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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“One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”
― George Orwell

tags: politics, wisdom

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