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“To make matters worse, Jackson placed great value on regurgitating every last detail of the assigned texts. When, in response to Jackson's question 'What are the three simple machines?' a cadet ans...”
“Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an en...”
“...he was not so much a human as a civil war.”
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen ...”
“Was I altering the 'space-time continuum' or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I'd accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous pe...”
“What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh was shredded off and the bone gleamed that famed ivory, and those below cowered a...”
“Media was a battle ground. So was the internet. People began walking openly with their weapons, whether it was a gun or a camera. Drones were always skimming overhead, filming the violence of the s...”
“Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a shadow which came from indignations and from sy...”
“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weatherd every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady...”
“The Captain, so close as he was, didnt warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horses hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to these foul foes.”
“Modifying Clausewitz aphorismwar is the continuation of diplomacy by other meansone could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation of parliamentarism with other...”
“I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and ability, announce in the House of Representatives, with imposing effect, that we of the South would ...”
“Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race; such were and are in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits ...”
“He wasnt sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot with him, but he knew the two phenomena were connected. And in the midst of the mystery lay his fath...”
“Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.”
“Todays breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known....”
“To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.”
“The promoters of emancipation were not bent on promoting a revolution so much as they were intent on snuffing one out a backward-looking, aristocratic revolution in order to put the South back on...”
“The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped a soft cotton gown over my naked body. I pulled the blanket off the fo...”
“I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.”
