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Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

by Steve Sheinkin

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The Bulge And Beyond: The Things Our Fathers Saw—The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation-Volume VI

by Matthew A. Rozell (Goodreads Author)

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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink (Goodreads Author)

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“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

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“The time is always right to do the right thing.”
― Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

tags: civil-rights-movement, inspirational, political

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“Your love is like the wind...you cant see it, but you can feel it...”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

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“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

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“A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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