"The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth."

-- Wilfred Owen

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“As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2007). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
“Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.84
“The spirit world wants us to know there's more to this life.”
“Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace.”
“Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.”
“Why be difficult, when with only a little bit of effort, you can be impossible?”

Source : Georgia Cates (2015). “Going Under Complete Duo: Going Under and Shallow”, p.237, Georgia Cates Books LLC
“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.”
“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.”

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