"Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling."

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Source : Blase Bonpane (2004). “Common Sense for the Twenty-first Century”

Blase Bonpane

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“I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.”
“I'm in a war, a cultural war.”
“All you can take with you is that which you've given away.”
“It always buzzes me out when I meet someone that I'm a fan of who turns out to be a fan of mine too.”
“If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.”

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“Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.”
“Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.”
“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.”

Source : Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.48, Hachette UK

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