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“I was running, jumping, zigging, and zagging as crossbow boy fired arrow after arrow at me.”
― John P. Logsdon, Sinister: Unhallowed

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”
― A.R. Moxon

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“It’s good Feng Shui.’ ‘What’s that?’ ‘It’s Chinese for throwing out your crap.”
― Mike Bennett, Resurrection