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“From start to finish I found no strangers. It I had, I might be able to report them more objectively. But these are my people and this my country. If I found matters to criticize and to deplore, they were tendencies equally present in myself. For all our enormous geographic range, all of our sectionalism, all of our interwoven breeds drawn from every part of the ethnic world, we are a nation, a new breed.”

"If anywhere in your travels you come across a man with guts, mark the place. I want to go to see him. I haven't seen anything but cowardice and expediency. This used to be a nation of giants. Where have they gone? You can't defend a nation with a board of directors. That takes men. Where are they?"
"Must be somewhere," I said.
"Well, you try to root a few out. We need them.”

“For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and of our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disney-land…. Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.”

“Are you seeking great things for yourself?…
Are you prepared to ask yourself what it is you want from God and why you want it? God always ignores your present level of completeness in favor of your ultimate future completeness. He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfection for you”

“Paul studied her face in this new light. It was a face he knew better in some ways than his own. He had seen this face soft with passion, in the sweetness of sleep, awash in fears and angers and griefs. He closed his eyes, and Chani came into his memories as a girl once more—veiled in springtime, singing, waking from sleep beside him—so perfect that the very vision of her consumed him.”

I wanna be outside but I’m reading about life saving interventions instead

“If she ever became a poet, she'd make the message clear.”

“….When "thinking machines" had been wiped from most of the universe, computers had inspired distrust. Old emotions colored the human computer as well”

“As with all things sacred, it gives with one hand and takes with the other. It extends life and allows the adept to foresee his future, but it ties him to a cruel addiction and marks his eyes as yours are marked: total blue without any white. Your eyes, your organs of sight, become one thing without contrast, a single view.”

“my coffee a wine-dark happiness”

“Having a companion fixes you in time and that the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present, and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.”

“If you are a Christian, the most important thing about you is your depth of conviction and breadth of understanding when you say, God is my heavenly Father. And if this is true for every believer, Jesus will say it is especially true for those who are anxious.”

Shock, Pharma, Airway, BLS.

The more I read the more I feel the war chants from the third trailer coursing through my veins