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Remember, Remember

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands…Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and revering him. [...]

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Politic, 1650

It might be imagined that men who sacrificed their friends, their family, and their native lands to a religious conviction, were absorbed in the pursuit of intellectual advantages which they purchased at so dear a rate. The energy, however, with which they strove for the acquirement of wealth, moral enjoyment, and the comforts as well [...]

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Commuting

Screaming became the speech of choice to wrap little fingers all the way around the cord Caused by minor fractures of vertebrate as they trample past the dead body conscious of little more than their own Attempting to pull themselves up in a bucket and out of an iron casket where their skin spent the [...]

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The Softest Curse

People live differently during war. There is an intensity and intention to every action and choice. The money that is spent is metered out more carefully, going only to what is deemed truly necessary. More thought is put into how time is spent with the looming knowledge that an enemy is close at hand. The [...]

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