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  1. Walter Dean Myers _ The Journal of Scott Pendleton

    First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will turn into something else. Then, they appease it in hope that it will not turn against them. Then, they respect it because they fear it. Finally, someone has to step up and stamp it out! {...}
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  2. David Benioff _ City of Thieves

    That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war."
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  3. Louis de Bernières _ Corelli's Mandolin

    We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and counter-orders that there were times when we did not obey any of them at all, knowing that they were likely to be countermanded almost immediately.
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  4. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion."
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  5. Erik Larson _ In the Garden of Beasts: Love,

    Nonetheless the man {Hitler} had a remarkable ability to transform himself into something far more compelling, especially when speaking in public or during private meetings when some topic enraged him. He had a knack as well for projecting an aura of sincerity that blinded onlookers to his true motives and beliefs..
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  6. Jean Anouilh _ Antigone

    My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.
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