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If you want to understand my methodology in choosing these quotes, you would need to take a deep dive into my mind…and even my therapist refuses to do that without a hazmat suit.
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“They’re murdering us here. Let’s move inland and get murdered.” Colonel Charles Canham, 116th, on Omaha Beach Don McCarthy, seeing Canham walking along the beach in enemy fire, "I got the hell out of there and moved forward. I was more afraid of Colonel Canham than I was of the Germans."

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"We'll start the war from right here!" Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division, upon finding that his troops had been landed in the wrong place on Utah Beach

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Today's Cartoon- D-Day

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“I was so angry. The Navy had tried to drown me at the beach, and now the Army was trying to drown me in the flooded area. I was more mad at our side than I was at the Germans, because the Germans hadn't done anything to me yet." Stephen Ambrose, D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II

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"This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success." Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate." President Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio broadcast, June 6, 1944

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D-Day, June 6, 1944 The Normandy Invasion during World War II had simultaneous landings of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. By the end of August 1944 all of northern France was liberated.

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“No gift is more precious than trust.” Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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"Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me." Mark Twain

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"A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot" John Calvin

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"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing." William Shakespeare

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"[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot." Groucho Marx

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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton

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When you ask me what I'm doing today and I say “nothing” it does not mean I'm free, it means I'm doing nothing

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“Believe in yourself or no one else will.” Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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"I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe." Robert Louis Stevenson

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"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings." George Herbert

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"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.” Edward R Murrow

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To each his own: "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." Mark Twain "I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company." R. A. Torrey

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"A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected." Reif Larsen

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“ A true heart should never be doubted.” Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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Happy Pride Month! open.substack.com/pub/lizadonn...

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"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise." Victor Hugo

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"More and more days go by where my respect for any existing god fractures further, but my hopes for a cruel hell climb ever higher." @supersenten.bsky.social

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"It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you." Lady Bird Johnson

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"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." John Stuart Mill, in an address at the University of St. Andrews (1 February 1867)

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"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." William Shakespeare

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The current reality is breaking my soul.

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“The first step to correcting a mistake is patience.” Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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If I was accidentally weird to you once just know I will be thinking about it every night for the next 20 years

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"All who gain power are afraid to lose it." Palpatine Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

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"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion." Sigmund Freud

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"We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach." Bertrand Russell

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Empathy is having the ability to be aware of and sensitive to the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of other people. Employing this ability selectively for only people you like or agree is immoral and depraved.

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Reading comprehension is rapidly becoming a lost skill.

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“Overconfidence is the most dangerous form of carelessness.” Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” Hannah Arendt

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“there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.” Niccolò Machiavelli

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“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

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"One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." Omar El Akkad

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"You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation." Marian Wright Edelman

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When the government politicizes everything, it performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you.

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“A lesson learned is a lesson earned.” Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters" attributed to Antonio Gramsci

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