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"Amazing. This was published in 2007. Laura Ingraham said it all perfectly. Syncs well with what has happened these past four years; happened for many decades, but, as she says in here - “Most Americans were too busy earning an honest living, raising their children, and going to church to notice what was slowly happening around them.� Well, after these past 4 years, many, many Americans are seeing a great bit now!" — Jan 31, 2025 04:27PM
"Amazing. This was published in 2007. Laura Ingraham said it all perfectly. Syncs well with what has happened these past four years; happened for many decades, but, as she says in here - “Most Americans were too busy earning an honest living, raising their children, and going to church to notice what was slowly happening around them.� Well, after these past 4 years, many, many Americans are seeing a great bit now!" — Jan 31, 2025 04:27PM

“If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back
to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never
yours to begin with.”
― Indecent Proposal
to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never
yours to begin with.”
― Indecent Proposal

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
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“Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy� but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.”
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The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy� but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.”
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