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words. I began to rely so much on writing that I was living a double life—one in the world and one on the page. The one on the page was more intense, more satisfying and for a long time much more real.
Creative Writing
Linda Anderson
Was einen Mann wie Thomas de Marle formte, war nicht unbedingt Veranlagung oder Vaterhaß, der in jeder Generation auftreten kann, sondern die Gewöhnung an eine Gewalttätigkeit, die sich ausbreiten konnte, weil es kein wirksames Organ der Kontrolle gab.
Der Ferne Spiegel
Barbara Tuchman, Malte Friedrich, and Ulrich Leschak
Fifth, “hands-on” knowledge is not always acquired in engineering classes. Being an engineer may make someone more likely to try their hand at bomb-making than it would someone with a nontechnical degree, but this may be the result of unwarranted self-confidence: in recent years a string of five attempted attacks, all aimed at Western targets, involved engineers and failed.
Engineers of Jihad
Diego Gambetta, Steffen Hertog
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