“This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!!”
“a word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies”
“Women like her looked at their world, rolled up their sleeves, and tried to make it better. Now”
“Detritus, that's the word. The awful accumulation of wrong decisions, improper terms. You scrape away the excrescences of history...and maybe you get down to the bedrock of human society, where diamonds hide. God of my fathers, how I wish we could bring in the psychological drills and probe down to bedrock.”
“Never ask such a question!” Rhodes exploded. “Anything can be done if men of good principle determine that it shall be done. Have you the courage to strike for immortal goals?” In”
“they believed that the bright, soaring promises of the New Testament could be used as a basis for government; and”
“a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere; and”
“Wrong decisions, Jakob, are never inevitable. A wise man can always turn back from a precipice.”
“The sanest judgment that can be passed on the genesis of this terrible war between two groups of friends is that it was the result of imperiousness on the English side and intransigence on the Boer. Like”
“then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and he”
“Most important fact of war? Keep your army in existence. Lose the battle, but keep your eye on winning the war.” But”
“What the Voortrekkers failed to realize in their moment of victory was that they had offered the covenant to God, not He to them.”
“Nevertheless, in obedience to the covenant as they understood it, they had won a signal victory, which confirmed their belief that He had accepted their offer and had personally intervened on their behalf. No”
“The Boer nation had become a theocracy, and would so remain. General”
“The English could bring into this tight area four hundred and forty-eight thousand soldiers, but they could not find space in their ships for the extra medicines and food needed to save emaciated women and children. They could import a hundred thousand horses for their cavalry, but not three cows for their concentration camps. Guns bigger than houses they could haul in, but no hospital equipment. It was insane; it was horrifying...”
“I’d hoped taking her virginity in midclimax would make it easier, but I couldn’t tell if it actually had. I mean, I had mirrors. I knew how big my cock was.”
“When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.”
“¿Quién puede entender los mil hilos que unen las almas de los hombres y el alcance de sus palabras?”
“A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.”
“At that point in my life, I was not looking for a career. I viewed my first decade after college as a time to explore. I didn't want anchors to hold me down. If something caught my attention, I would try it. If not, I would move on.”
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