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“But nothing surprises me now. I’ve grown used to living in a world that is out of joint, as if it has been struck by an enormous earthquake so that the roads are no longer flat, nor the building straight.”
― March Violets
― March Violets
“There is that old joke. Why is there never a coup in the United States? Because there is no US embassy there.”
― Washington Bullets
― Washington Bullets
“The price of repression is greater than the cost of liberty. The degradation of men costs something both to the degraded and those who degrade.”
― John Brown
― John Brown
“It was class against class in the immediate years after the Second World War, with the CIA helping the ruling elites to maintain their property and privilege against democracy.”
― Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
― Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.”
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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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