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“Your religion is based on ‘Don’t be a dick’?” “Hey, that’s a good basis for a religion.” “I, I actually cannot argue with you about that.”
“The thing they cared about the least was flesh and blood. Soldiers on the march—guys like me—could be printed out like sheets of paper.”
― Jungle World
― Jungle World
“It really helps, in a negotiation, actually to know what you are doing and be stone-cold sober about the real interests of the other players.”
― 9 Lessons in Brexit
― 9 Lessons in Brexit
“There were few things a ground-pounder liked less than sitting in a tin can while fleet-types tried to kill each other. We were like kids strapped into car seats, hoping our drunk parents were going to make it home this time out.”
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“The battle for free trade policies – always difficult in the US – has, after all, gone rather convincingly backwards in both major US parties in the last 20 years. I am tempted to say it’s only much of the Tory Eurosceptic Americanophile establishment which appears not quite to have noticed that, and seems to view President’s Trump’s administration as more of a bastion of free trade than it seems to the rest of the world.”
― 9 Lessons in Brexit
― 9 Lessons in Brexit
“The Germanic tone… it’s very calm yet quietly confident. I bet Germans were really cool, whoever they were back on Earth. They sound peaceful and meditative.”
― Voodoo Warfare
― Voodoo Warfare
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