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Heat 2

by Michael Mann

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Robert Emmet: A Life

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Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat?

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Mike’s Quotes

“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

tags: leonard-cohen

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“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams

tags: liberty, tyranny

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“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

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“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

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“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”
― Criss Jami

tags: broken, broken-hearts, comforting, crying, doctor, father, god, healing, heart, heartbreak, heavenly-father, hurt, listen, listening, loss, pain, recovery, tears

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