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Globalization or Democracy

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“Như được hẹn trước, âm nhạc chợt dừng lại, những người đi dạo trên bãi biển chợt đóng băng và ngước nhìn, tiếng ồn tại Rumheads chợt lắng đọng khi mọi cặp mắt xoay chuyển để chiêm ngưỡng cảnh mặt trời đang tiếp nước. Những đám mây xám trắng rơi rớt của cơn bão hạ thấp dần ở đường chân trời rồi chìm xuống cùng vầng dương. Chúng từ từ làm xoay chuyển những sắc cam, vàng và đỏ, thoạt tiên chuyển thành màu xanh xám, rồi bất chợt là những tông tươi sáng. Trong một khoảnh khắc ngắn, bầu trời là một tấm vải bạt mà mặt trời vấy lên đó những sắc màu tuyệt mỹ bằng những nét mạnh bạo. Rồi quả cầu màu cam sáng chạm mặt nước và, chỉ trong tích tắc, nó biến mất. Những đám mây trở lại với màu đen và tản mát dần. Đó là khung cảnh mặt trời lặn ở Cayman.”

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Book:The Firm
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“Chiến tranh cướp đoạt mạng sống, không đếm xỉa đến ý nguyện của ai. Trên chiến trường dĩ nhiên không tồn tại cái gọi là nhân tính. Nhưng nhân tính lại là đặc tính riêng có ở loài người, suy ra hành vi chém giết liên miên trên chiến trường cũng là một biểu hiện của nhân tính rồi. Nếu vậy, những câu thuyết giáo rằng phải 'sống như con người', thì nên hiểu là sống kiểu gì đây? Có lúc cảm thấy cái tôi sợ chết đến hèn mọn trên chiến trường lại giống con người hơn bao giờ hết.”

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Book:The Summer of the Ubume
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“My main concern was my teeth because they were in constant pain. Meth depletes the body of calcium, the vitamin essential to maintaining healthy teeth. It also includes acidic ingredients that can damage teeth. The ingredients include but are not limited to battery acid: Drano, over-the-counter cold medications like Sudafed, antifreeze, engine starter fluid, and brake fluid. Basically, pop the hood of your car and you can find the ingredients you need to cook meth. I’m no dentist, but I came to the conclusion that was the root of my tooth pain.”

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Book:Teenage Degenerate
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“They were Chinese vampires. They were discovered during renovation work at the Bok Kai Temple in Old Sacramento. One of the priests there told his brother about them. The brother's whatever the Chinese version of mobbed up is. Alex here thinks he's using them to distract the Nortenos and the Black Dragons long enough to take over the marijuana trade in Sacramento using the stuff they're making in a bunch of grow houses in Elk Grove." Ted stared at me. "And will the Chinese vampires be joined by legions of Korean werewolves who have been cooking meth in trailer parks in Truckee? "No. The werewolves are refusing to get involved. Trust me, I've tried to talk them into helping. They'll have nothing to do with it.”

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Book:Don't Kill The Messenger
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“I smoked my first pipe with Seth. I knew the stuff was bad, but I was so tired of being the cop, begging and ragging at him, throwing Pampers in his face when he walked in the door. I wanted to be on the same side again. So I smoked with Seth one afternoon when the girls were napping, and oh my God, I can only think about this for a minute or every part of me will turn into a mouth wanting more: the sexiness of it, fucking Seth like wild for the first time in months, going on even when the girls started to whimper and bang on the door. Then looking out the window and seeing the world shake itself to life: the heavy trees, the sky. And I was back on top. We were going to make it, Seth and I. The voice in my head was back again, telling me stories, too many to write down or even tell one from another.”

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“We invariably come back to testing as a means of understanding drug use, even though assuming these tests lead to truth puts one on shaky ground. You simply can't prove something to be true or false if the means of confirmation are easily questioned. Consider how the National Survey on Drug Use and Health concludes every four years how many meth addicts there are in the United States. First, surveyors ask employers to give their employees a questionnaire on drug use. The survey asks employees whether they have done amphetamines (not specifically methamphetamines) in their lifetime, in the last year, and/or in the last six months. First, it seems unlikely that drug addicts will take this completely optional test; will answer truthfully if they do take it; and will even be at work in the first place--as opposed to home cooking meth. Further, since methamphetamine is just one of a broad class of stimulants in the amphetamine family, an answer of yes to the question about using one amphetamine can't be taken as an answer of yes to using another. And yet, for the study's purposes, anyone who says they've done any kind of amphetamine in the last six months is considered "addicted to amphetamines," and--in a way that is impossible to understand--a certain percentage of these responders is deemed addicted to crank.”

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Book:Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
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