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#1

“I have had the best day ever more times that I can remember. So yes,
I believe I am ready to die if that is what is needed to live as I want to.”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

tags: africa, awareness, explore, fascination, insight, memoir, nature, raw, reflective, wild

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#2

“ “We think a spy scheme could be brewing with one or more of the Middle East scientists going to Los Alamos.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: cia, cold-war, conflicts, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series, spy

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#3

“ “I embraced my nature; you should do the same.” His voice dropped to a whisper, like a caress made of words that touched me deep within my soul. “You and I are the same, Karo. We’re both ugly on the inside.”
― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

tags: deciet, drama, exciting, fiction, mystery, romance, romantic, suspense, thriller

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#4

“The Ganeva conference on Indochina agreements stated that the south of Vietnam would be handed over to a provisional administration after two years at the most and that general elections would be held in 1956 at the latest, giving Vietnam a single and united government. (due to American actions, the agreements were never put into place)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war

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#5

“As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: admiration, bonds, controversies, democracy, friends, influential, leaders, policy, research, respec

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#6

“A society with extreme inequality, unmasked neo-fascist tendencies, and an unraveling climate is sick, and neoliberalism, as one of the major drivers of all of these crises, is grossly inadequate medicine. It offers only a weak no to the forces responsible, and it lacks a yes worth seizing.”
― Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

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#7

“Facilis descensus Averni:
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

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#8

“I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour. If I really had the courage of my convictions, I reasoned, I ought to redress the balance at least slightly. My cousin was simply the easiest and most obvious target.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

tags: misanthropy, misogyny, murder

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#9

“Even in her mind the words had the forlorn gallantry of someone whistling in the dark.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Witchlight

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#10

“Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

tags: friday-the-thirteenth

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#11

“If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?”
― John Gunther

tags: texas

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