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During his country’s war with Iraq, Iranian military commanders had ordered thousands of schoolchildren to go out along the borders to dig up mines placed by Saddam Hussein’s soldiers. The students were given plastic necklaces with keys on
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Jesus
“To read without joy is stupid.”
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“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
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“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
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“It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right. ”
― Some Hope: A Trilogy
― Some Hope: A Trilogy
“War is what happens when language fails.”
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