Yamamoto is famous for being a crazy military genius and a crazy gambler. If you met him in person, you probably wouldn’t be very intimidated. He stood about 5’3” or 5’4”.
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We watched the news reports apathetically at first. We had nothing better to do. Then the first plane hit.
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“If what Machiavelli believed is true, this undermines one major assumption of western thought.”
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During the prolonged power outage caused by The Great Ice Storm of 1998, we huddled together by candle light with our friends and family, playing Scrabble, Asshole, and Hearts.
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It was the summer of 1990, I was fifteen, and I was in love.
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“In her salon, Bernardine Szold-Fritz brought together characters as diverse as Morris ‘Two-Gun’ Cohen, the scholarly dilettante Harold Acton, and the triple agent Trebitsch Lincoln.”
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“If you had any kind of relationship with Mickey—or any writer, for that matter—you naturally ran the risk of being written about.”
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President John Quincy Adams regularly swam naked in the Potomac.
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One pays the price for being the child of one’s parents.
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If a dating app like this existed, would you use it?
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“We are that close to President Trump. Bill Cosby’s a rapist, and Bruce Jenner’s a chick. We’re in an episode of Lost. Down is up and up is down!”—Joe Rogan
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“What about men’s rights?” Shut the fuck up. Stop. Men cause most of the murder. Men cause most of the rape. A guy stops me. “Actually, here’s a statistic you’re probably not aware of. But men actually get raped more than women.” Yeah, by other men, you fucking dipshit!
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Today marks the grisly anniversary of the bloodiest slave uprising in American history.
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“Wolfe, like his hero Balzac, was the great apostle of surface.”—Aaron Haspel
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“If we really had to, most of us can pull off the most astounding feats, living for weeks without food, scrambling through 100 kilometres of scab-land and gulch: humans are big, tough animals, and they die hard.”
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“In Egypt you can be only two things. Either a vulture or a corpse. Either you eat the dead bodies or you are a dead body yourself.”
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The thought that what binds Nazism and capitalist democracy is more important than their differences, and that it was Germans who had fallen victim to both, helps account for the German radical Left’s distinctive insensitivity on the subject of Jews.
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“Pace the self-congratulatory narrative that has entered the American public record, Washington did not ‘bring down’ Communism—Communism imploded of its own accord.”
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During the Soviet period, Russian elites learned to dissimulate in order to survive; now there is no need to constantly change their colors, but they continue to do so out of a sort of dark joy, conformism raised to the level of aesthetic act.
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“You can find bad information about every single thing out there, but you’ll make yourself miserable. You’re too woke, go back to sleep a little.”—Michelle Wolf
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