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“You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“But what can women do in times of war? They help, they cheer, they inspire, and if their cause is lost they must accept death or worse. Few women have the courage for self-destruction. "To the victor belong the spoils," and women have ever been the spoils of war.”
― Maude and Miriam: Or, the Fair Crusader
― Maude and Miriam: Or, the Fair Crusader
“The consequence of this reality was that in virtually every major battle of the Civil War, Confederate soldiers who did not own slaves were fighting against a proportion of Union Army soldiers who had not been asked to give theirs up.”
― Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
― Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
“They have become spoilers because in their view America’s political elites, both Republican and Democrat, have grown together into an almost indiscernible “hybrid royalty” that offers them little to choose from in terms of how the nation is actually being governed.”
― Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
― Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
“But to tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age.”
― Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
― Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
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