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“the big horn and since the horns were found washed up on shore one may assume the nomads would have thought that these large horses died at sea, their bodies were devoured by sea beasts and that the horns floated to their coastal waters. ”
― Bō Jinn, Illogical Atheism: A Comprehensive Response to the Contemporary Freethinker from a Lapsed Agnostic

“more likely than hypothesis ‘B’ which is a logical impossibility. 5.”
― Bō Jinn, Illogical Atheism: A Comprehensive Response to the Contemporary Freethinker from a Lapsed Agnostic

“the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  According to His great mercy, ”
― Ted Cabal, The Apologetics Study Bible

“He lay and felt the old anger inside him grinding like gears. Cold, implacable anger. Uncontrollable. They had made a mistake. They had changed him from a spectator into an enemy. A bad mistake to make. They had pushed open the forbidden door, not knowing what would come bursting back out at them.”
― Lee Child, Die Trying

“the science of shooting people in the torso and not killing them was a fairly inexact one. In fact, he might have just invented it.”
― Vince Flynn, Lethal Agent

“Cozo’s guys could let your name slip.” “So?” “They could tell him where you live.” “And that’s supposed to scare me? Look at me, Blake. Get real. There’s maybe ten people on the planet I need to be scared of. Extremely unlikely this guy Petrosian happens to be one of them.”
― Lee Child, Running Blind

“I actually believed that our Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, could read my mind, and I would be punished for my bad thoughts. And if he didn’t hear me, spies were everywhere, listening at the windows and watching in the school yard.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“when my mother sent me off to school she never said, “Have a good day,” or even, “Watch out for strangers.” What she always said was, “Take care of your mouth.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“After I escaped to South Korea, I was surprised to hear that the blossoms and green shoots of spring symbolize life and renewal in other parts in the world. In North Korea, spring is the season of death. It is the time of year when our stores of food are gone, but the farms produce nothing to eat because new crops are just being planted. Spring is when most people died of starvation”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“The only good thing about spring was that we didn’t need as much wood to burn, and we could walk to the small mountains outside of town where we could fill our bellies with bugs and wild plants so that the hunger didn’t bite so sharply.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“Time did not heal wounds for him. Not for someone who could never forget. Their murders were as fresh now as when they occurred. Not just the visuals, but also the emotional hatchet attached to the mental images. They would be until the day he died.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“All these cars. All these lights. I’d seen them in the illegal South Korean TV dramas, but I’d always thought it was propaganda, that they’d brought all the cars in the city to the same street where they were filming.’ She shook her head. ‘It’s astonishing.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

“He had avenged the murders of his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law. But that did nothing to take away the loss, the pain. Nothing ever could. Time did not heal wounds for Decker. The passage of time was irrelevant to his unique mind. Everything he had ever experienced in life was as freshly minted in his brain as the moment it was created.”
― David Baldacci, The Fix

“It had forced him into being a different person, as though a stranger’s personality and attendant quirks had been superimposed over his own. But now the stranger’s footprint was Decker. I am now the stranger. I’m a stranger in my own body.”
― David Baldacci, The Fix

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune