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Book cover for Weapons of Opportunity (The Nick Flynn Series #3)

Weapons of Opportunity (The Nick Flynn Series #3) by Dale Brown

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The moment you ignored an observed fact because it didn’t match your theories was the moment you strayed into fundamental error.

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Phil’s Quotes

“Apparently, when Walter Cronkite reported on the Tet carnage, he’d said—on air—“What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

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“Maybe happy now, happy for a moment, is all we really get. Happy forever seems a shitload to ask in a world on fire.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

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“From here, the war was almost beautiful. Maybe that was a fundamental truth: War looked one way for those who saw it from a safe distance. Close up, the view was different”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

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“Race don’t come into it. They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won’t catch them making off with the feast.”
― Dennis Lehane, Small Mercies

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“So. I am not coming home next month. I have signed up for another one-year tour of duty. I simply can’t leave my post when the men need me. We don’t have enough experienced staff here. There. I can hear you screaming. If you knew me now, you’d understand. I am a combat nurse.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

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