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by
Max Brooks
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November 25 - December 10, 2022
Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it’s unsustainable.
Denial is an irrational dismissal of danger. Phobia is an irrational fear of one.
It’s great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.
A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. —CORDELL HULL, secretary of state to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you. That’s why most weapons of war are designed to injure instead of kill. Wounded are more of a drain than the dead.”
“People only see the present through the lenses of their personal pasts.”