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"The snapshots of the Japanese skulls were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the marines were proud of their success in humiliating, punishing, and finally destroying an enemy who, violating a quiet American Sunday, had dared bomb Pearl Harbor, thus inaugurating the marines' prolonged misery by seeking to terminate in maximum agony their brief, unspent lives."
— Jun 25, 2012 10:02PM
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Brian Mackey
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'The great principle of industrial mediocrity and uniformity is, "Unless everybody wants it, nobody gets it." That is the inviolable rule of mass tourism, the same rule governing such other group experiences as mass feeding and mass education.'
— Jul 08, 2012 02:25PM
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'Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.'
— Jun 20, 2012 09:31PM
