Sha Rockingham

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“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

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“The real slog, if they wanted to get serious, was to convince hunters, collectors, and enthusiasts that no one was coming for their guns.”
― Dave Cullen, Parkland: Birth of a Movement

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“A faint heart and a weak eye sees doom in everything,”
― Garth Nix, Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: The Complete Adult Debut—Godslaying Fantasy Adventures of a Witch Knight and Puppet Sorcerer

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“This acute, “a selfdissolving contradiction,” Marx had very precisely seen and foreseen that “it establishes a monopoly in certain spheres and thereby requires state interference.” This contradiction “reproduces a new financial aristocracy” (how much Marx was right!), no matter it will call itself Communist Party of Soviet Union or DuPont Financial Circle. It reproduces “a new variety of parasites . . . , a whole system of swindling and cheating by means of corporation promotion, stock issuance, and stock speculation.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: analysis, communism, dictatorship, economy, effective, monopolistic, myth, non-fiction, oppression, political-ideology

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“Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound Rat's shirt.
"Let that be a lesson to you not to gamble," he told the Rat soberly. "The trickster asks you pay for any luck you may have, one way or another."
"Bless the boy, he's a priest with it," one of the Goddess warriors said with a grin. "After this, laddie, what's say I take you home and rub some of that off yez?"
Ersken actually winked at her! "Forgive me, gracious warrior, but my woman would turn me into something unnatural if I took you up on your kind offer," he replied as if he truly regretted it. "She's a mage and I'd best stay devoted.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

tags: flirting, gamblers, graceful-letdown, guards, repriminding

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