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Marty G

@martyg1991.bsky.social
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“I’m not a magician, Spock, just an old country doctor “ Doctor, Dad, and Friend of Bill. I love books written by human beings. Posting topical quotes from Michigan.

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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 58m
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 20h
“I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it...But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.” Joseph Boyden, The Orenda
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Oppression is the mask of fear.” Karis Nemik “Rix Road”, Andor
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.” John Muir
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.” Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.” Victor J. Stenger
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.” Albert Camus, The Plague
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.” Dorothy Day
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impassable with our bodies the corridors to the gas chamber. For if they come for you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” James Baldwin
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” John Brown
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.” Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.” Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.” Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.” Robert H. Jackson
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” Euripides, Orestes
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“As for our Ouija-board Supreme Court, it would be nice if they would take time off from holding séances with the long-dead founders, whose original intent so puzzles them, and actually examine what the founders wrought, the Constitution itself and the Bill of Rights.” Gore Vidal
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The definition of intelligence is the ability to defy your own programming.” C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Yes, Juris thought. Keep trying. Keep finding wrongs, and naming them, and trying to make them right. Never stop. Even now.” Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.” Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge.” Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“With few ambitions, most people allowed efficient machines to perform everyday tasks for them. Gradually, humans ceased to think, or dream... or truly live.” Brian Herbert, The Butlerian Jihad
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The steward had been more circumspect after that. He had learned - as Odysseus had learned after a certain number of years of his wanderings - that his guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.” Dan Simmons, The Terror
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“I’m a scientist; because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living, and when I don’t like something about the world, I change it.” — Pickle Rick
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.” Maximilien Robespierre
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so long that she was happy to eliminate you.” Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.” Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.” Alice Munro
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moments. I missed mine. Yes is what I should have said. Of course I should have said yes.” Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder.” Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.” Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.” Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you.” Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken.” Jack London, The Call of the Wild
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.” Thomas R. Donahue
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“You must be this stupid to ride this ride.” Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.” Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“If you have a problem with the majestic Canadian Goose, then you have a problem with me.” Letterkenny
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"I'm Just Here For The Gasoline." Mad Max 2 (1981)
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“The gifts of our colors may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path.” James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Don’t Dream It, Be It..." Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry)
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” Benito Mussolini
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.” Winston Churchill
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.” Mark Twain, Roughing It
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn” Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Mark Twain
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“You’re not going to break me,” I said. “You might hurt me, or kill me, but you’re not going to break me.” Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl
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Marty G @martyg1991.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.” Dorothy Day
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