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 // Define the list of folders  
-const folders = ["book-review", "christianity", "concepts", "creative", "innovate", "gratitude", "news", "posts", "sacrament-symbols", "tech"];
+const folders = ["book-review", "christianity", "concepts", "creative", "innovate", "gratitude", "news", "posts", "quotes", "sacrament-symbols", "tech"];
 
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-date-finished: "${yday}"
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   body += "# Current Solutions\n\n"
   body += "# Improved Solution\n\n"
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+if (folder === "quotes"){
+  body += `${title}`
+}
 
 const filepath = `${folder}/${slug}`  
 await tp.file.move(filepath)  

book-review/band-of-brothers.html

@@ -288,6 +288,32 @@ <h1 class="title">Band of Brothers</h1>
 
 
 
+<p>2024-03-09</p>
+<p>Interesting stories:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>noticing the new tree</li>
+<li>Webster’s commentaries</li>
+<li>The personalities</li>
+<li>The mental fortitude and collapse</li>
+<li>How 101 went to the fight while other people retreated.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>2024-03-06</p>
+<ul>
+<li>the book is a review of battles in incredible detail. Lots of details on maneuvers. But also shows the desperation. Of the situation.</li>
+<li>things that impacted me:
+<ul>
+<li>The way they react to bullets and artillery. Sometimes laughing. Then crying.</li>
+<li>The war breaks some people. They go crazy.</li>
+<li>Some shot their own hands to avoid the war</li>
+<li>Million dollar</li>
+<li>Cover fire.</li>
+<li>Looting. Lent up energy. 60+ days no showering. Digging own fox holes deep. Friendly fire and shooting or bayoneting own people. Miracle of a stray bullet not killing you.</li>
+<li>Polish with guns behind their back (from Germany) so they’d fight.</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CQatuQdQv4">YouTube video on the war</a></p>
+<p><a href="https://youtu.be/SOiiSgDLkn4?si=gOmnG9mEBzy22h6Y">YouTube - battle of the bulge google maps</a></p>
+<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91v7jLDnAg">YouTube battle of dunkirk 1940</a></p>
 <p>2024-03-02</p>
 <ul>
 <li>they want to be with the best rather than the common infantry unit. Their chances of survival are higher.</li>

book-review/beyond-band-of-brothers.html

@@ -294,6 +294,46 @@ <h1 class="title">Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
 
 
 
+<p>Comparison to <a href="../book-review/band-of-brothers.html">Band of Brothers</a></p>
+<ul>
+<li>focuses more on winter’s specific things, though many things are similar. More stories in the other book.</li>
+<li>while other people</li>
+</ul>
+<p>2024-03-09</p>
+<p>When I meet people i size them up.</p>
+<p>Ambrose: I would follow Winters because he was honest and knew how to lay down a cover of fire.</p>
+<p>Three stages</p>
+<ol type="1">
+<li>This can’t happen to me</li>
+<li>This could happen to me</li>
+<li>This is going to happen to me. → combat fatigue. Take off helmet and just put hand through hair.</li>
+</ol>
+<p>Some people snapped.</p>
+<p>Reflections</p>
+<ul>
+<li>while others were partying, I was studying.</li>
+<li>Don’t define leadership. It’s “follow me”. You can’t make sound decisions unless you’re affected by the decision.</li>
+<li>Great physical fitness means you can make sound decisions. → physical fitness to push yourself.</li>
+<li>Nourish teamwork.</li>
+<li>If you don’t worry about the credit, you get a lot more done. Blame yourself with a failure. Credit the team with a victory.</li>
+<li>Reflect.</li>
+<li>Hang tough. True satisfaction comes from getting the job done.</li>
+<li>No man hangs his wings on his chest. He wears them within his heart.</li>
+<li>War brings out the worst and the best in men. Wars do not make men great, but they bring out the greatness in good men. War is romantic for those farthest away from it.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Leadership from the bayonette. 10 points of leadership by dick winters.</p>
+<ol type="1">
+<li>Strive to be a leader of character, competence, and courage.</li>
+<li>Lead from the front. Say, “Follow me!” and then lead the way.</li>
+<li>Stay in top physical shape—physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.</li>
+<li>Develop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.</li>
+<li>Delegate responsibility to your subordinates and let them do their jobs. You can’t do a good job if you don’t have a chance to use your imagination or your creativity.</li>
+<li>Anticipate problems and prepare to overcome obstacles. Don’t wait until you get to the top of the ridge and then make up your mind.</li>
+<li>Remain humble. Don’t worry about who receives the credit. Never let power or authority go to your head.</li>
+<li>Take a moment of self-reflection. Look at yourself in the mirror every night and ask yourself if you did your best.</li>
+<li>True satisfaction comes from getting the job done. The key to a successful leader is to earn respect—not because of rank or position, but because you are a leader of character.</li>
+<li>Hang tough!—Never, ever give up.</li>
+</ol>
 <p>2024-02-22</p>
 <ul>
 <li>dick winters’ was just a boy from rural Penn. His dad made $40 a month. He got into the army and became something else. Excellence is no respecter of persons.</li>

book-review/dune.html

@@ -304,6 +304,19 @@ <h1 class="title">Dune</h1>
 <p>Thought provoking. Concepts of politics, religion, science, and diplomacy. War, worms, and wonder. Great read.</p>
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 </div>
+<p>Movie reactions to a friend:</p>
+<blockquote class="blockquote">
+<p>the ending of the bad guys is anti-climactic, but I read the books and it’s pretty similar. Rabban doesn’t really even die. Feyd Rautha dies how he does in the book. The death of the Baron is far more interesting in the book, which I won’t spoil but it’s a whole subplot they couldn’t fit in</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="blockquote">
+<p>The symbolism is more that they all scoffed and scorned a 15 year old boy as not being worth anything. The theme of the baron being over confident that there aren’t fremen, that by leaving Paul in the desert he’d die with his mom, etc. they all felt untouchable. Then they all die unceremoniously and their power is just stripped away in a moment. Symbolic of Paul’s rise as a messiah and how these big leaders have very little keeping them from being humanized and debased.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="blockquote">
+<p>Frank Herbert’s theme when he speaks about the book is that “beware of leaders. Don’t trust any of them. Don’t worship them - they’re just humans”. And I think the unceremonious death kind of enshrines that. The baron who was rising over the Duke, dies face down in the dirt. Feyd Rautha who killed an Atreides in the coliseum dies in front of none of his people, etc.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="blockquote">
+<p>It’s anti climactic but I think it speaks a lot to the theme of how majesty is kind of a thin veil.</p>
+</blockquote>
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book-review/mere-christianity.html

@@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ <h1 class="title">Mere Christianity</h1>
 <ul>
 <li>I wrote <a href="../christianity/2024-03-03-my-testimony.html">My Testimony</a> today without having read this book - cool to see we both had the same logic on “math” and “law of nature”.</li>
 <li>I love his “unseen hand” or “to compare something as moral or immoral you must do it against some standard”</li>
+<li>When speaking you can use inflection. When writing, you shouldn’t use italics because there are better ways of emphasizing the point. Ways you might not be able to employ with just writing.</li>
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