Author: Michael Palmer

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• NULL (3)
  • IN: A Heartbeat Away (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORDER OF PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION 1. Vice President 2. Speaker of the House 3. President Pro Tempore of the Senate 4. Secretary of State 5. Secretary of the Treasury 6. Secretary of Defense 7. Attorney General 8. Secretary of the Interior 9. Secretary of Agriculture 10. Secretary of Commerce 11. Secretary of Labor 12. Secretary of Health and Human Services 13. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 14. Secretary of Transportation 15. Secretary of Energy 16. Secretary of Education 17. Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs 18. Secretary of Homeland Security
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: Flashback (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men and for all time to come, if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.
    FROM: Conclusion of The Oath of Hippocrates, 377 B. C., (-377), NULL, Greece
  • IN: Resistant (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Throughout the course of human history people have endured uncertainties brought on by illness, poverty, disability, and aging. Economists and sociologists take delight in labeling these inevitablities as threats to one's economic security, when in truth they are the price each individual must pay to fund their existence.
    FROM: R Lancaster Hill, 100 Neighbors, Sawyer River Books, (1939), Fictional, NULL
• Plato (1)
  • IN: The fifth vial (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The beginning is the most important part of any work.
    FROM: The Republic, Book II, (-375), Book, Greece
• Merle Travis (1)
  • IN: Flashback (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to The Company Store.
    FROM: "Sixteen Tons", (1947), Song, US
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1)
  • IN: Resistant (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others. That responsibility is recognized by every civilized nation... To these unfortunate citizens, aid must be extended by government -- not as a matter of charity, but a matter of social duty.
    FROM: Fireside Chat, (1933), Speech, US

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• João Almino (1)
  • IN: The Book of Emotions (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: So the remembered world's songs and flooded paths This heap of photographs
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL