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| 4643b16 | They were returning to Mourmelon, but not to the barracks. This time they were billeted in large green twelve-man wall tents, about a mile outside what Webster called "the pathetically shabby garrison village of Mourmelon, abused by soldiers since Caesar's day, consisting of six bars, two whorehouses, and a small Red Cross club." In Webster's scathing judgment, "Mourmelon was worse than Fayetteville, North Carolina." | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| cc45000 | When the shooting started, they wanted to look up to the guy beside them, not down. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 5b08307 | One observer estimated that in 1901 Texas alone had eight hundred million prairie dogs.4 Jack rabbits were nearly as numerous. Antelope and deer numbered in the millions, as did the wolves and coyotes, and there were thousands of elk, bear, and other game. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 6a32f82 | Comrades are closer than friends, closer than brothers. Their relationship is different from that of lovers. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 77f8243 | There was an excess of drinking, whoring, fighting. Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply, "The trouble with you Limeys is that you are underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.")" | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 3c07a26 | I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?" -- | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 4c6b9a1 | When she pulled the ribbon out of her mattress, at first light the next morning, it was brown. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 623d0c2 | Pedigree was the centerpiece of Supreme Court chief justice Roger B. Taney's majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision (1857). Though this case assessed whether a slave taken into a free state or federal territory should be set free, its conclusions were far more expansive. Addressing slavery in the territories, the proslavery Marylander dismissed Jefferson's prohibition of slavery in the Northwest Ordinance as having no constitutional st.. | Nancy Isenberg | ||
| d30ea1f | Sin importar que pensamientos o sentimientos aviente mi cerebro, los reconozco por lo que son y dejo que esten ahi, rindiendome ante lo que son, renunciando a cualquier juicio, mientras me muevo hacia mis valores." Scott" | Mark Freeman | ||
| b84ac5f | meal. | Lois Lenski | ||
| c6aaedb | For the survivors, the disaster of the Indy is their My Lai massacre or Watergate, a touchstone moment of historic disappointment: the navy put them in harm's way, hundreds of men died violently, and then the government refused to acknowledge its culpability. What's amazing, however, is that these men, unlike contemporary generations who've been disappointed by bad government, are not bitter. Somehow, a majority brushed aside their feelings.. | Doug Stanton | ||
| 325f818 | Later, Dean would see Atta's fighters show up carrying AK-47s, and there with them would be their sons, carrying spare magazines. Behind the sons walked even younger sons, carrying nothing. Dean understood that in this kind of fighting, the sons who carried nothing would pick up either a gun or a magazine if the fathers or brothers were killed. The look on the faces of the kids seemed to indicate to Dean that they expected to die. | Doug Stanton | ||
| eece4ef | Together, they wanted to return the Middle East to the fourteenth century, into a golden age ruled by Islamic law. | Doug Stanton | ||
| ffccd26 | the sun set . . . with guillotine-like speed this close to the equator. | Doug Stanton | ||
| e66e8fe | On November 5, to kick off the final, coordinated assault on Baluch, Stu Mansfield, positioned with Atta at the warlord's mountaintop compound, ordered the drop of a bomb called a BLU-82, which Mansfield called "the Motherfucker of All Bombs." A few minutes after dawn, barreling toward earth was the largest non-nuclear explosive device in the United States' arsenal." | Doug Stanton | ||
| beef125 | thinks now. And sometimes, Little One. It's quite mysterious to | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 04b2f63 | Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 18a7140 | Accurate data on shark attacks on World War II servicemen may never be known since medical records did not note them. In fact, the navy was sufficiently concerned about loss of morale that it discouraged public mention of the menace. | Doug Stanton | ||
| 5ba0084 | Before their hurried flight from the city two weeks earlier, the Taliban had left the weapons and smeared feces on the walls and windows. Every photograph, every painting, every rosebush had been torn up, smashed, stomped, ruined. Nothing beautiful had been left behind. | Doug Stanton | ||
| 5b87b71 | Ali was horrified and enraged when in March of 2001 the Taliban dynamited the stone Buddhas that had stood watch over the town for centuries. What man had the right to write the future by blowing up the past?) | Doug Stanton | ||
| e98f217 | Other objects found in shark stomachs include a suit of armor, a barrel of nails, a roll of tar paper, coal, raincoats, shoes, plastic bags, goats, sheep, lizards, snakes, chicken, reindeer, and monkeys. | Doug Stanton | ||
| bf67e90 | On a training mission, he'd watched as Nightstalker pilots cut their own landing zone using the rotors of the helicopter as giant hedge clippers. They'd been landing in a pine forest and he marveled as the helo dropped into the hole of its own making--pine | Doug Stanton | ||
| 8875a9d | Looking over to his left, he watches a rocket-propelled grenade race in and blow up one of the M-60 machine-gun positions. Just then he also sees a lone, tall figure, an American, charge the position, fire, and retake the gun. Even in the dark, amid the explosions, he can recognize the silhouette of the gunner as Michael Bradshaw. Stan is filled with joy that Bradshaw has rushed to the position to counter the enemy's attack; his decision to.. | Doug Stanton | ||
| 354812d | THE AMERICANS Major James Pitman: West Point graduate, lover of dogs and horses. Executive officer of the 42nd Squadron of the 2nd Cavalry. Lieutenant William Donald "Quin" Quinlivan: Career cavalryman. Assigned to the 42nd Squadron of the 2nd Cavalry. Colonel Charles Hancock "Hank" Reed: Virginia-born, expert horseman, commanding officer of the 2nd Cavalry. Captain Ferdinand Sperl: Swiss-born naturalized U.S. citizen. Interrogator attached.. | Elizabeth Letts | ||
| d8272b9 | Elizabeth Brown prefered a book to going on a date. While friends went out and danced 'till dawn, she stayed up, reading late. | Sarah Stewart | ||
| 258b7f3 | Molds are for Jell-O, not for people. | molds people unique | Sarah Stewart Holland | |
| 5f703e9 | When President Roosevelt talked about the necessity of work, he meant that the government would create jobs that paid well enough to give people new leases on life. When we talk about job requirements today, we mean, "go find something that exists in the private sector and that you're qualified to do today, even if it doesn't pay wages that enable you to deal with transportation, childcare, and all the other aspects of your life that must b.. | Sarah Stewart Holland | ||
| a1fe6ca | We've decided to stop calling America "divided." Buying into this conflict-driven narrative is a choice, and it's a choice we're not going to make. We don't feel divided from each other or the people in our lives in any way. There are no perfect relationships, ideas, people, or organizations in our lives. They're all flawed, just as we are flawed. But we see past those flaws--because we are first looking for the good." | Sarah Stewart Holland | ||
| 344d175 | Whether you believe our country's problem is generational, geographical, or partisan, the most important thing to know about the polarization in American politics today is that we are choosing it. We are choosing division. We are choosing conflict. We are choosing to turn our civic sphere into a circus. We are choosing all of this, and we can choose otherwise. | Sarah Stewart Holland | ||
| 87899b4 | them. Frederick Buechner described grace this way: "The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you." | Sarah Stewart Holland | ||
| a6bc9e8 | We need to bring our voices and perspectives to the table calmly, with respect for ourselves and one another, recognizing that we do not live alone. America has never been and will never be homogeneous. We are here to bump up against each other. We need to bring our faith and values not just to specific issues but to the process of engaging in civil discourse. | faith politics voices | Sarah Stewart Holland & Beth Silvers | |
| 9933331 | Ultimately politics is about people. People are never boring, and people belong together. We are meant to hash out how we want to live in community with one another. | politics | Sarah Stewart Holland & Beth Silvers | |
| 833120d | Whenever we make one thing the central cause of a problem or the singular solution to that problem, the stakes are always too high to allow honest conversation or vulnerable reflection. | problem reflection solution | Sarah Stewart Holland & Beth Silvers | |
| 2c48f59 | we can come to "equally faithful, yet different, conclusions" in politics and in the voting booth.2 However, we seem incapable of doing that. The other side's motives must always be nefarious. It's not that people on the left have reached a different conclusion on abortion; it's that they want to kill babies. It's not that people on the right believe different things about the social safety net; it's that they hate poor people." | Sarah Stewart Holland | ||
| 4233b19 | Politicians shouldn't determine our positions and values. Our values should determine the policies and positions we support. | Sarah Stewart Holland & Beth Silvers | ||
| fbb001c | Grace helps us make difficult conversations less difficult by tapping into the larger shared mystery of human experience. That's all it is. We aren't required to lose ourselves or abandon reason in the process. We don't have to accept the unacceptable in order to maintain our grace. Grace simply means that all people are valuable. It does not mean that all opinions are valid. Grace does not mandate that we treat all sides of an issue as equ.. | Sarah Stewart Holland | ||
| 54d8dc7 | It's hard to discuss motherhood because it is such an identity. However, when we get curious, we can shift from the focus on our own perspectives (and our own defensiveness) and think about the other person's. The decisions mothers make about birth, breastfeeding, and whether to work beyond child-raising are intensely personal and are made against a backdrop of cultural messages that seem designed to make all of us feel selfish and inadequa.. | Sarah Stewart Holland | ||
| 88b5cb6 | We also can't have productive dialogue with others without getting curious about what stakes color the other person's perspective. Our stakes aren't always logical, coherent, or rational, and that's okay. The same holds true for other people. We don't need to discount a person's position because of what's influencing it; we just need to acknowledge what's influencing it. | Sarah Stewart Holland | ||
| 5f5d12f | it's important to note that we can push past hard disagreement to places of compromise and problem-solving only if we stand firmly in identities rooted in a humanity and worth that is far beyond the reach of politics. | Sarah Stewart Holland | ||
| fc58333 | the paper | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 3836941 | I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life. | Bette Davis | ||
| a1d959c | if Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America. | Clayborne Carson | ||
| 1b7996a | It stands to reason that those who assault nature will suffer at her hands in the end. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 18885a7 | She struggled to think of one day in more than fifteen years of life when instead of drifting along like a leaf on the river she'd simply grabbed what she wanted. The | Emma Donoghue |