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He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.

Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin , in The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
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Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.

Clint Van Winkle , in Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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