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Marriage is nothing to underestimate. Success in marriage is about getting back up, again and again. Ultimately, the Shulamite had to write her own role in Solomon's drama. She made Solomon's problems her problems. For her, that was worth every bruise.
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Michael Ben Zehabe (Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters)
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Like your marriage, everything in the universe is trying to find its orbit. In the midst of this constant readjustment, both partners should be able to go to bed knowing that neither one is going to abandon a wounded, or struggling marriage. There is a comforting reassurance being with someone who keeps their promise.
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Michael Ben Zehabe (Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters)
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Silas Hawthorne is the keeper of secrets. The unstoppable force and immovable object. Silent water, with unknown depths filled with mysteries he will take to his grave.
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Monty Jay (The Oath We Give (Hollow Boys, #5))
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It sickens me to admit this, but the divorce rate is the same for religious couples as it is for non-religious couples. Is it preposterous for us to think that we can love someone for a lifetime? Marriage is held together with such flimsy things--lace, promises and tolerance. We humans are so unskilled at sustaining intimacy. We begin with such high hopes, yet lose our way so quickly.
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Michael Ben Zehabe (Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters)
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I will tell you about the lady I loved."
The girls settled together on the entrance steps, not even breathing, for fear it would rustle the rosebushes about them and mask Mr. Keeper's words. Mr. Keeper stood unmoving on the dance floor.
"Once upon a time," he said. His voice dripped in silk strands. "There was a High King, who wanted more than anything to kill the Captain General who incited a rebellion against him. It consumed him. The desire to kill the Captain General filled him to his core, and he spent every breath, every step, thinking of ways to murder the Captain General.
"But he was old, and time passed, as it always does."
Mr. Keeper paused. Bramble cast a slightly bemused glance at Azalea, her eyebrow arched.
"So," Mr. Keeper continued, "he took an oath. He filled a wine flute to the brim with blood. And he swore, on that blood, to kill the Wentworth General, and that he would not die until he did.
"And then, he drank it.
"The end."
There was a very ugly, naked silence after that. The girls' mouths gaped in perfect Os.
"Sorry?" said Delphinium. "I missed the part about the lady?"
"Ah," said Mr. Keeper. "The blood. It was hers.
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Heather Dixon Wallwork (Entwined)
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Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.
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Sapphire Knight (Oath Keepers MC: The Collection (Russkaya Mafiya/Oath Keepers MC, #2,3,4,7))
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No one knows who I am or anything about me and that gives me a sense of safety, finally.
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Sapphire Knight (Secrets (Russkaya Mafiya/Oath Keepers MC, #1))
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Members of both the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers have been charged with “seditious conspiracy
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The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (The January 6th Report)
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Mark seemed puzzled. “I haven’t heard of them. Are they dangerous ones, or is some other group dangerous?” Max said, “They’re all dangerous. Boogaloo Bois, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys.” “Antifa is dangerous too,” Mark added.
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Cassidy Hutchinson (Enough)
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Silas, I promise to be your peace when the world provides only war. To be your secret keeper and safe haven. Today, I vow to be the one person who accepts you for who you are and who you will become.” She glances up at me, holding my gaze as she speaks the last line. “Till death do us part.
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Monty Jay (The Oath We Give (Hollow Boys, #5))
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Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;
I pray for no man but myself:
Grant I may never prove so fond,
To trust man on his oath or bond;
Or a harlot, for her weeping;
Or a dog, that seems a-sleeping:
Or a keeper with my freedom;
Or my friends, if I should need 'em.
Amen. So fall to't:
Rich men sin, and I eat root.
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William Shakespeare (Timon of Athens)
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Maybe it’s not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it’s about starting over and creating something better. -Unknown
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Sapphire Knight (Oath Keepers MC: The Collection (Russkaya Mafiya/Oath Keepers MC, #2,3,4,7))
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This is how we reach the place where we’ll make our oaths,” Councillor Emery corrected, because nothing with the elves could ever be quick or simple.
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Shannon Messenger (Legacy (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8))
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And yet, I was bound by an oath of loyalty which was impossible to deny or ignore.
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Alan K. Baker (The Lighthouse Keeper)
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One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart. -Linda Poindexter
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Sapphire Knight (Oath Keepers MC: The Collection (Russkaya Mafiya/Oath Keepers MC, #2,3,4,7))
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It gets old for me, being more capable than the men I attempt to date.
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Sapphire Knight (Chevelle (Oath Keepers MC Nomads, #4))
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Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
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Sapphire Knight (Oath Keepers MC: The Collection (Russkaya Mafiya/Oath Keepers MC, #2,3,4,7))
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From the beginning, the poorhouse served irreconcilable purposes that led to terrible suffering and spiraling costs. On the one hand, the poorhouse was a semi-voluntary institution providing care for the elderly, the frail, the sick, the disabled, orphans, and the mentally ill. On the other, its harsh conditions were meant to discourage the working poor from seeking aid. The mandate to deter the poor drastically undercut the institution’s ability to provide care. Inmates were required to swear a pauper’s oath stripping them of whatever basic civil rights they enjoyed (if they were white and male). Inmates could not vote, marry, or hold office. Families were separated because reformers of the time believed that poor children could be redeemed through contact with wealthy families. Children were taken from their parents and bound out as apprentices or domestics, or sent away on orphan trains as free labor for pioneer farms. Poorhouses provided a multitude of opportunities for personal profit for those who ran them. Part of the keeper of the poorhouse’s pay was provided by unlimited use of the grounds and the labor of inmates.
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Virginia Eubanks (Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor)
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Throw me to the wolves and I’ll return leading the pack.
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Sapphire Knight (Cherry (Oath Keepers MC Nomads, #5))
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In 2011, Epps was listed as the Arizona chapter president of the Oath Keepers. In the decade leading up to January 6th, he gave interviews, conducted vigilante investigations, and appeared at events with the militia group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes, who would go on to be charged with seditious conspiracy related to the Capitol attack.
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Denver Riggleman (The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th)
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We also learned that in the midst of the violence of January 6, members of the Oath Keepers were texting one another about Republican Congressman Ronny Jackson of Texas. One text said this: “Ronnie Jackson (TX) office inside Capitol—he needs OK [Oath Keeper] help. Anyone inside?
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Liz Cheney (Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning)
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The leader of the state’s Republican Party is reportedly an Oath Keeper. He appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast shortly after the impeachment vote and suggested that Wyoming was very interested in the possibility of secession.
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Liz Cheney (Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning)
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The “far right” of the Klan has begun to merge into the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters, and countless other groups whose rhetoric and tactics continue to mutate and metastasize.
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Joe Moore (White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us)
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Jamie Ward told me he had fielded hundreds of calls in the time since we’d first spoken. He stressed that this was a trend the Klan was seeing nationwide. Of course, relatively few of those who contacted the Traditionalist American Knights became card-carrying members. The Klan tends to be cautious and discriminating when it comes to its membership, viewing itself as far too serious a group in terms of tradition and long-term goals to accept people looking to join a social club. As it turned out, other groups more than willing to take those the Klan had rejected were sprouting and flourishing. Groups like the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, and others were all well known to the FBI back then, but became household names only in the wake of 2021.
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Joe Moore (White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us)
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One of the first things I learned in my position of Grand Knighthawk was how much overlap had begun to take place between the Klan and various militia-style groups, namely the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters, along with several smaller militias (the Proud Boys hadn’t established themselves as a force yet).
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Joe Moore (White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us)
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I may not be the greatest practitioner to have graced the playing fields of Casterbrook, I may have chosen to squander my talents on pranks and japes, and I, most definitely, am not in the weight class of Nightingale… But I am a keeper of the secret flame, a sayer of the three sacred oaths, and a man who carries a staff of power. Except when it clashed with that evening’s outfit. But, metaphorically speaking, I carry it with me wherever I go.
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Ben Aaronovitch (The Masquerades of Spring)
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Klan brothers turned against their leaders and sought refuge in militia-style groups like the Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, and Proud Boys, which had become a rising force in the world of ultra-right-wing fanatics.
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Joe Moore (White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us)
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Russian words utilized throughout Secrets- Красива
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Sapphire Knight (Secrets (Russkaya Mafiya/Oath Keepers MC, #1))
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Ferguson, Missouri. When riots broke out over the August shooting death of Michael Brown, armed members of the Oath Keepers took to the city’s rooftops, appearing out of the smoke and shattered glass of ransacked buildings. Their supposed duty was to secure the local businesses from looting. In the first days of the protests, demonstrators had broken out windows of storefronts, set arson fires, and torched a beauty supply store. ABC News reported that a number of business owners embraced the Oath Keepers’ armed presence. Group members boarded up storefronts and kept buckets of water and fire extinguishers handy in case nearby arson attacks escalated. This was the vigilante group’s moment in the media sun. Still, rumors flew. Some protestors thought the armed men in camouflaged fatigues were members of the Ku Klux Klan. The St. Louis County police ordered the Oath Keepers to leave the rooftops of Ferguson, threatening them with arrest for acting as a security force without a license. This only added fuel to the right-wing group’s conspiracy that the government is not protecting its people. The volunteer security force packed up and left Ferguson, leaving people wondering exactly who these heavily armed mystery men were.
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Anonymous
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streamed into a narrow hallway with the rest of the mob, intent on making their way to the Senate. But cops in riot gear blocked the end of the passageway, preventing the tightly packed throng from advancing. Watkins admonished those in front of her in the hallway to “Push, push, push…Get in there. They can’t hold us!” She was wrong. They could hold the line, and they did. Police tossed tear gas into the crowd. The mob backed away. At just past three o’clock, the defeated Oath Keepers, including Watkins, retreated from the building.
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Anita Bartholomew (Siege: An American Tragedy)
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It will cost you nothing to dream, and everything not to. -GeniusQuotes.net
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Sapphire Knight (Daydream (Oath Keepers MC Nomads, #2))
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Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.
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Sapphire Knight (Oath Keepers MC: The Collection (Russkaya Mafiya/Oath Keepers MC, #2,3,4,7))
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You had me at a point where I would’ve left the entire world behind for you. -iglovequotes.net
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Sapphire Knight (Daydream (Oath Keepers MC Nomads, #2))
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But I am a keeper of the secret flame, a sayer of the three sacred oaths, and a man who carries a staff of power. Except when it clashed with that evening’s outfit.
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Ben Aaronovitch (The Masquerades of Spring)