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“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
― Over the Teacups
― Over the Teacups
“I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.”
― Iron Lake
― Iron Lake
“To state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“the Christian Right and radical Islamists, although locked in a holy war, increasingly mirror each other. They share the same obsessions. They do not tolerate other forms of belief or disbelief. They are at war with artistic and cultural expression. They seek to silence the media. They call for the subjugation of women. They promote severe sexual repression, and they seek to express themselves through violence.”
― American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
― American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
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