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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 99d8a52 | Christ came to save men, but a good Pagan will go to heaven, and a bad Nazarene to hell. I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other. I will bring ten Mussulman, shall shame you all in good will towards men and prayer to God. | John Nichol | ||
| 166a999 | Nerves got the better of the most experienced pilots during Rhubarbs. On one occasion, two of Robertson's fellow 111 Squadron pilots flew over the Channel up into cloud then came down and slipped over the coast. They spotted a train and shot it up before heading back home. They were surprised on return to be called into the Station Commander's office. What had they been shooting at? A train. Did they damage it? Yes, quite a bit. Did they re.. | John Nichol | ||
| fd192f7 | Major (later General) Curtis LeMay recalled the shock of fog when he flew in to a British airfield for the first time from the US. 'Can you see the runway lights?' the control tower asked the pilot of his aircraft, to which the pilot replied: 'Shit, I can't even see my copilot! | John Nichol | ||
| ae10a5c | In 1941, after a year's experience of bombing Germany, a crucial Air Ministry analysis of photographic evidence had revealed that only 22 per cent of bomber crews who claimed to have hit their target actually got within five miles of it.5 In the more heavily defended Ruhr | John Nichol | ||
| 20b178e | But this was life in those days. Today we are a totally different society. We put out bunches of flowers, have little vigils, hold hands and have counsellors to tell us all what to do. It was totally different then. The world events were so monumental that you had no time to think about the people who had fallen by the wayside. If we had had today's attitudes, we would never have won the war. | John Nichol | ||
| ff33905 | same | Lisa Chaney | ||
| 18ec05c | One of those settlers was Normandy-born and ornately named J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur, who embarked for America in 1754, purchased an estate in Pennsylvania, and married the daughter of an American merchant. In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country and his countrymen in the most flattering terms: We are the most perfect so.. | Simon Anholt | ||
| 153d259 | In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country and his countrymen in the most flattering terms: We are the most perfect society now existing in the world... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world... Here a man is free as he ought to .. | Simon Anholt | ||
| b964ec5 | America is basically about freedom. | Simon Anholt | ||
| 1611e05 | a while. Until about a year | Susan Conant | ||
| 67f0e9c | Gino Fosse vond deze vreemde afbeeldingen van martelaren fascinerend. Hij had uren in de San Stefano Rotondo, niet ver van de villa Celimontana, zitten kijken naar de vaklieden die de verbijsterende schilderingen op de muren daar restaureerden. Deze afbeeldingen spraken tot hem, zeiden iets dat hij niet helemaal begreep. Op de lippen van de martelaren lag op het moment dat zij de kwellingen doorstonden, een raadselachtig eeuwig geheim dat z.. | David Hewson | ||
| cb6cf3a | He was determined to take the first flight out, wherever it went. Anywhere had to be better than this. | David Hewson | ||
| 6e48a21 | it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American. | Bruce Cumings | ||
| c180e64 | In fact the United States has had no exit strategy since 1945, expect in places where we were kicked out (Vietnam) or asked to leave (the Philippines): American troops still occupy Japan, Korea, and Germany, in the seventh decade after the end of World War II. Policymakers - almost always civilians with little or no military experience (Acheson is the archetype) - get Americans into wars but cannot get them out, and soon the Pentagon takes .. | korean-war military military-history war | Bruce Cumings | |
| 4f4de13 | Eventually the Korean War will be understood as one of the most destructive and one of the most important wars of the twentieth century. | korea korean-war military-history war | Bruce Cumings | |
| 98e0ef9 | It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States in the policeman of the world. | military-history the-korean-war war war-history | Bruce Cumings | |
| 2cda6ff | It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States into the policeman of the world. | korea military-history the-korean-war war war-history | Bruce Cumings | |
| d5b786c | Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end. | korea korean-war military-history war war-history | Bruce Cumings | |
| 62cf98d | And last week, when he finally began to erase it, he noticed something very strange: the accent on the letter E was actually formed from a piece of materiel. We all watched as he stared at the letter E for a very long time. Then he slowly unpeeled the rolled-up cloth fro the blackboard and unfurled the biggest pair of polka dot panties anyone in the room had ever seen. | panties pate tricky | Jennifer Allison | |
| b2ff68a | The heat of summer was all but a memory now as the late November chill grew teeth and bit hard. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 98f0839 | Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.' Henry | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 5ae9daf | The last twenty-four hours had been one result after another, and the small swell of pride she felt for her team was only marred by the pointless loss of a young life. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| b4b1386 | the stars, this victim was not a natural beauty, but someone who had been tampered with to produce a shocking wax-like effect. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 6f772f9 | sorry son, you can't. But I'll come back for you. I promise.' Charles wiped the tears from Frank's freckled cheek with his thumb. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 656e2bb | police all the more determined to find him. Doctor Tanner had been warned. His beneficiary had instructed him from the start: have your fun but frame Nathan Crosby. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 2c7071a | by the time she left, she was equipped with an evidence bag containing the seized jewellery and a statement giving up Danny Smedley as the person who pawned it. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| f3a7d81 | Ruby nodded, knowing the bond of having a daughter would always keep them in contact. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| f6ad362 | Water found its own level, she had said, and there were enough damaged souls in the world to find each other and begin the cycle all over again. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| effe1ae | She knelt down, her breath stinking of cigarettes and alcohol. It was his mother's signature aroma. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| be7102b | The best way of keeping a low profile was to immerse himself in the mundane. Act like them, talk like them. A smile, a joke was all it took - at least during the day. The night was his own. | serial-killer thriller | Caroline Mitchell | |
| b4038b9 | He would never comprehend what I was going through unless I told him, but he'd never look at me the same way again if I did. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| da653fb | Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for. | thriller | Caroline Mitchell | |
| b9ceb7f | Let the game begin. Enjoyed playing witness? You get to do it again. Ten times over. One crime for every year you kept me inside. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 499d929 | You come into this world alone, and you go out of it alone. As soon as you make peace with that, the sooner you learn there's no point being afraid. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 0b74657 | mischievously. Clack ... clack ... clack; the noise of a walking stick echoed in the stairwell. An | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 9efc1a4 | Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral. | police-procedure thriller | Caroline Mitchell | |
| 64c14b2 | Jennifer can no longer ignore the personal connection. Is there a copycat killer at work? Was the wrong man convicted? Or is there something more sinister at play ... | supernatrual-thriller supernatural-crime | Caroline Mitchell | |
| 3bf4fa1 | Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him. | mystery supernatural-crime | Caroline Mitchell | |
| dc872fe | As the saying goes . . . the past is a nice place to visit but not a good place to stay. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 28de017 | One lie spoils a thousand truths.' -African proverb | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| de73eac | an | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 7f08710 | Jennifer | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 23ec85c | A gentleman is simply a patient wolf' --Lana Turner | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 74b5c9f | The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie lasts forever. | Caroline Mitchell |