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“THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: The kind who take and don't give. The kind to whom you give and give, And they keep asking. The kind to whom you give and give and they say you gave nothing. The kind whom have never offered anything, But act like they're the ones providing EVERYTHING. The kind you give and give, But take more than you can give. And when they have already taken everything, They get mad at you when you say you have Nothing more to give. The unforgiving, The misgiving, Wastefully living - And selfishly driven. The rat that never gives back, Yet is so quick to attack - Because they think the word TAKING Seriously means GIVING.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-" "You invented the Internet?" It was my idea, Martha said. Rats are delicious, George said. "It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats.”

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Book:The Sea of Monsters
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“A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash ... Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldy bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times ... Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to move. [Expressing, in picturesque terms, the strength of an organism relative to its bulk.]”

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Author:John Scott Haldane
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“Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in pies! When the pie was cut, Hugh Briss began to sing! Wasn't that a stonewall rat to set before the Fossil's ding?”

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Book:Twin Loyalties: From The Chronicles Of Tar Ponds City
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“Ima život i u njemu šest stvari: rat i smrt, ljubav i igra, rad i vjera. Rat i smrt su tu, nezvani i zajedno, kao bolesnik i bolest, kao mrtvac i grob, kao gubavac i guba. Ljubavlju i igrom zaboravljamo na rat i smrt. Voljenjem se budi zanos, a igrom nehaj, ali oboje je kratkotrajno, poput smjene noći i dana. Ostaje rad da bi njime zaboravili na rat i smrt, ljubav i igru. Da radom i znojem spoznamo kako nema obruča da se njime obujmi svijet. Onda se čovjeku javi vjera da ga utješi što je sve nepromijenjeno, i što je tako.”

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Book:Pjesme divljih ptica
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“According to defense attorney, Bruce Cutler, Gravano misrepresented himself to FBI agents and prosecutors as a strong-willed, tough-as-nails gangster who had confronted Gotti when he had disagreed with his Mob policies. The lawyer recalled that in Gotti’s presence, 'Gravano was always subservient, even obsequious around John.' And when the climactic test came, Sammy’s self-preservation was more important to him than saving his boss and dozens of his crime colleagues.”

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Book:Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
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“One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“Prije polaska u Bosnu, u ministarstvu vanjskih poslva, oficirski kadar donekle je upoznat sa stanjem u zemlji u kojoj idu. (...) Odnosi između tih triju vjera, rekli su im potom, puni su nesporazuma i nepremostivog nepovjerenja, iz čega proizlazi sve ostalo, nesuglasice i sukobi koji su rađali svakom vrstom zla. Stekne se stoga dojam da se svi oni međusobno mrze, teško i nepopravljivo. Međutim, nije tako, nije mržnja ono što upravlja postupcima tih ljudi - već strah. Pas koji se boji - ujeda. Tako je svugdje, ne samo u Bosni, međutim Bosna je posebna zbog tri naroda koja u njoj izmiješana žive. I svi oni imaju svoje strahove: katolici se boje pravoslavnih, pravoslavni katolika, a muslimana se boje i jedni i drugi. Turci su u tome iznimka: njihov strah nešto je drugačiji od straha pravoslavnih i katolika, sličan je onome koji postoji u zapadnom svijetu: to je strah povlaštene kaste da će izgubiti prevlast i privilegije koje idu uz nju. A strah je u Bosni stalno priutan, poput bolesti koja se načas smiri, pa se ponovno razbukta. Uvijek je tu, zakopan plitko ispod kože, i samo se treba naći onaj koji će zagrebati ispod nje i tako ga potaknuti. Uvijek je strah glavni pokretač tih ljudi, ali ni u jednom trenutku ne smije se zanemariti njihovo sjećanje, iskrivljeno i selektivno, iz kojeg se onda rađa strah. Svi se sjećaju vlastitih nesreća i patnji, a zlo koje oni čine drugima, učas zaborave. Na njega ne ostane ni spomena. Zato ga ovi drugi pamte, dugo i ustrajno. Mržnja je, dakle, samo instrument straha, koja prestaje onog trena kad ne postiji razlog za njega.”

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Book:Na Vrbasu tekija
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“Прави разлог рату? Има их дубоких и компликованих. То за нас, Србију, не важи. Ми се боримо збиља за слободу, и да останемо верни себи. То је, изгледа ми, сасвим лако. Много би ми било теже да сам ма која друга нација која се, можда, бори због пијаца и акција. Зато ћу сасвим лако погинути, ако то затреба, не сматрајући да ми је ма ко "подвалио", не бојећи се будућег историчара и његовог суда. Али међу нама има нас који су се дали у дубоке разлоге и образложења. " Економски разлози" увек су ми изгледали ништавни кад ствар дође до пресудна обрта. Тада се гине. - А "економија" важи само за - живот. Чим настане област смрти, економија бежи, згранута, не разумевајући ништа. Економија бежи, ми не бежимо. (Станислав Винавер, Скопски ђачки батаљон 1914: Батаљон 1300 каплара)”

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Book:Daj nam Bože municije
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“Pye turned his paw over and chewed his claws. “Humph. What you think of me is none of my business.” “You don’t know, do you?” “Know more than you . . . Know what?” “You are dead.” Pye patted his paws. “No, I’m not.” He rolled on his back and stretched, enjoying the warmth of the fire. “I’ve been here since 1665.” Pye chuckled. “You are, if I may so, in remarkably good condition.” Apart from the hole in your head, missing tail, and pulmonic plague cough. “I’ve seen them come. Seen them go. Seem them hang around in limbo. That’s what it’s called when beings don’t leave this Earth.” “Purgatory!” “I am responsible for many deaths,” Rita said. “You!?” “They couldn’t build the graves fast enough to bury the bodies.” “I don’t understand how a mere stump-tailed fur ball could endanger life.” “If I were you I'd think that.” A silence followed before Rita said, “I did not work alone.” “Oh?”

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Book:Heaven Won't Wait
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“Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted. Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly. Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-" No, Alec," Isabelle said irritably. "Not like that. He's a rat." She's drunk," said Jace, beginning to turn away in disgust. I'm not," Isabelle said indignantly. "Well, maybe a little, but that's not the point. The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks- I told him not to, but he didn't listen- and he turned into a rat.”

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Book:City of Bones
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“They say that animals are incapable of feelings and reasoning. This is false. No living thing on earth is void of either. They also say that man is the most intelligent — and the most superior — species on earth. This is also false. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. It has been shown that both rats and monkeys learn from making errors, yet we have not. Our history proves this. All creatures on earth have the capacity to love and grieve the same way we do. No life on the planet is more deserving than another. Those who think so, are the true savages.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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