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“I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion.”
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

“Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.”
― Colin Powell, My American Journey: An Autobiography

“Estimates of the number of people killed by Stalin range from as low as twenty million to as high as sixty-two million “unnatural deaths” during Stalin’s time as Soviet leader. The man who is credited with saying that “death solves all problems” and “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic” murdered his own citizens through executions, artificial famines, forced-labor camps, incarceration, and torture.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

“Civilians!” they read in Japanese. “Evacuate at once! “These leaflets are being dropped to notify you that your city has been listed for destruction by our powerful air force. “This advance notice will give your military authorities ample time to take necessary defensive measures to protect you from our inevitable attack. Watch and see how powerless they are to protect you. Systematic destruction of city after city will continue as long as you blindly follow your military leaders whose blunders have placed you on the very brink of oblivion. It is your responsibility to overthrow the military government now and save what is left of your beautiful country. “In the meanwhile, we encourage all civilians to evacuate at once.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

“Illidan glared at the Broken and his pathetic allies. “You are not prepared.” A”
― William King, Illidan: World of Warcraft

“The Templars would later encounter Ismaili dualists in the form of the Assassins, who would descend from their Syrian mountain eyrie to commit acts of terror against all sides.”
― Michael Haag, The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

“I scowled at him. “Not every good thing that happens is divine intervention, Michael.” “True,” Michael said, “but I prefer to give Him the credit unless I have a good reason to believe otherwise. It seems more polite than the other way around.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“Once the sword was drawn there was no turning back; for blood called for blood, and vengeance followed swift on the heels of atrocity.”
― Robert E. Howard, Red Nails (Conan

“The war had destroyed many things, but one of the worst casualties was the loss of hope for a peaceful world. Yet every man who saw these horses at Hostau ended up with a smile on his face and an image in his mind of a world less troubled than the one in which he currently dwelled.”
― Elizabeth Letts, The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

“When I emailed an archive for a picture of what was arguably America’s first shopping center, the librarian wrote back with the needed links and added, “As a child of the 1990s, I’ve got many a fond memory of the mall, including the fad kiosks (pogs, especially).”
― Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall