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Reading sheds light on our dark path ahead. By traveling into the past, I enhance my grasp of the present.

— Jim Mattis Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead (2019)

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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.

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To all who serve in defense of our values.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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