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“but for me—a fast-growing thirteen-year-old—the most alarming thing was when we sat down to our first meal. I couldn’t believe the dish that appeared in front of me. They served us dog meat. Yes, dog meat. The stench was overpowering.”
― A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
― A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
“A truly International Monetary System would be one where the whole world possessed a homogeneous currency such as obtains within separate countries and where its flow between regions was left to be determined by the results of the action of all individuals.5”
― The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
― The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
“this act is engraved in my mind deeper than any other experience in my two tours in Vietnam. A huge black enlisted man, clad only in shorts and boots, hands bigger than dinner plates, reached into my helicopter to pick up one of the dead white soldiers. He had tears streaming down his face and he tenderly cradled that dead soldier to his chest as he walked slowly from the aircraft to the medical station.”
― We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
― We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
“It is not in a woman's best interest to rule man. I don't believe any good women would want that position." - Ayn Rand”
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“Indians only needed so many implements and decorations. If a tribe drove three hundred buffalo over a cliff, they wouldn’t feel obligated to make twenty-four hundred buffalo-hoof spoons and six hundred buffalo-horn charcoal carriers. Rather, they might just take the meat and hides from the best-looking female buffalo, those that weren’t too smashed up or buried under other buffalo. That might be all they touched. After all, their time and energy had value, just as ours does.”
― American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
― American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
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