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I am tired of hearing the officers say that we are ever closer to victory, and that the end of the war is in reach. Don’t they understand that we are rising up only to fall?”
Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
“a town partly destroyed by fire and deserted in haste.” Here, sometime around or after 1200 BC, “loose objects were left abandoned in the courtyards and valuables were hidden in the ground. Bronze arrowheads—one of them found stuck in the side of a wall of a building—and numerous lead sling bullets scattered all over the place are eloquent proof
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American Statesmen: Patrick Henry : Moses Coit Tyler : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
during those last days
Brandon Sanderson • The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
The danger is greatest when the finish line is in sight. At this point, Resistance knows we're about to beat it. It hits the panic button. It marshals one last assault and slams us with everything it's got.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
On July 11, two 3rd Regiment platoons advance from the conquered village of Daniyal toward the olive orchards separating Ben Shemen from Lydda. Strong machine gun fire from the outskirts of Lydda halts them. In the meantime, Moshe Dayan’s Regiment 89 arrives in Ben Shemen. By the water fountain Dr. Lehmann built for his Arab neighbors, Dayan forms
... See moreAri Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
As the elderly passed away, the departed Golden Shore vanished into the smoke of history. The ship of human civilization floated alone in the vast ocean, surrounded on all sides by endless, sinister waves,…
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Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
De Politeia is een tekst van meer dan tweeduizend jaar geleden. Maar alles zit er al in: de hebzuchtige mens en zijn niet te stoppen verlangen naar meer welvaart en luxe; de schaarste en de honger die vervolgens opdoemen. De onvermijdelijke oorlog. En de waarschuwing dat we de armen vooral niet aan al te veel rijkdom moeten helpen.