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Page 55 is a map, so I chose the 5th sentence of Page 555:
"On the 'urban graveyard effect', the negative growth rates taken to be characteristic of urban populations, see Sharlin (1978) 'Natural decrease in early modern cities'; Reher (1990) 59; de Vries (1984) European Urbanization, 179-82, both with further bibliography; Finlay (1981) Population and Metropolis: the Demography of London 1580-1650; compare also Landers (1993) Death and the Metropolis, on the demography of eighteenth-century London."
-The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History, Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell
"It liked my arm so much, Smee, that it has followed me ever since, from sea to sea and from land to land, licking its lips for the rest of me."
--J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
But this has no earthly connection with the right of self-determination of small nations.
--Richard Fraser, "Dialectics of Black Liberation" in Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of African American Liberation by Richard Fraser and Tom Boot
Some writers frankly placed the discussion in political perspective, but even they demonstrated a wider effort to sharpen their fellow slaveholders' class consciousness by appealing to a sense of moral responsibility.
--Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
"She kept her eyes shut tight when she heard the voice of Mr Franklin."
--Alex Wells, Hunger Makes the Wolf
"Sebastian had been reluctant."
--Jen Williams, The Copper Promise
"Bez, however, knows the truth: the Sidhe are still active and still working to manipulate the future of humanity's society."
--Liz Bourke talking about Queen of Nowhere by Jaime Fenn in her collection of reviews and critique columns, Sleeping With Monsters
"It had better be."
--Antony Johnston, The Coldest Winter (prequel to The Coldest City, which is currently in cinemas as Atomic Blonde).
"Bez, however, knows the truth: the Sidhe are still active and still working to manipulate the future of humanity's society."
--Liz Bourke talking about Queen of Nowhere by Jaime Fenn in her collection of reviews and critique columns, Sleeping With Monsters
Bez, as in Bez from the Happy Mondays?
Having not read the book she's reviewing, my opinion is that yes, Bez from Happy Mondays knows the truth.
'Now it was a race to get to Rhan first'
Michael Moorcock - Sojan.
"I'm not dead yet."
George R.R. Martin, And Death His Legacy, collected in Dreamsongs, Vol. 1
From the book I purchased just this very evening (so for the moment, I have just as much context as the rest of you):
"Convinced that Zerzura held the key to occult knowledge and power over the entire East, Almasy deliberately misidentified a mundane Egyptian wadi as Zerzura to his adventuring companions."
--The Nazi Occult, Kenneth Hite
For you indeed a city is assured, and a home in which, leaving me to my misery, you will dwell for ever, motherless.
--Euripides, "Medea" in Ten Plays
Peter Kropotkin, the anarchist philosopher, was living in comfortable exile in England when the Russian Revolution erupted.
--Tariq Ali, The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
In March 1999, the United States and its European Union junior partners launched a murderous bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.
--Party of Socialism and Liberation (no individual credit), Imperialism in the 21st Century: Updating Lenin's Theory a Century Later including Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by V.I. Lenin
And, no page 55 in the next very short pamphlet, so, from page 5:
On certain occasions that was precisely how Lenin spoke; for example, at the Stockholm Congress, when he replied to Plekhanov, who had rebelled against the "utopia" of seizing power: "What program are we talking about?"
--Leon Trotsky, What Is the Permanent Revolution? Three Concepts of the Russian Revolution
Often combating Nazis and the police alongside Turkish youth, the burgeoning autonomous antifa movement shut down a Nazi rally in front of the Reichstag and a number of celebrations for Hitler's hundredth birthday on April 20, 1989.
--Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
Ammu said that the sad but entirely predictable fate of Chacko's airplanes was an impartial measure of his abilities.
--Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Rarely."
The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
"And Guadalcanal stank."
- Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II, by Robert Leckie
"Most vital of the Fifteenth's oil targets was the Ploesti complex of refineries in Romania, which contributed about 30 per cent of the entire Axis oil supply and an equal amount of petroleum."
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Owner's Workshop Manual, by Graeme Douglas
"But it remained an inert thing of black stone"
- Magic: the Gathering: The Brothers' War, by Jeff Grubb
Two days later the Third Estate, being obliged to sit in the church of Saint Louis, found the clergy coming to take part in their deliberations.
--Pyotr Kropotkin, The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793
'But for that my purpose in this work, is to write that only which I know doth appertain to this art, giving leave to every man to busy himself in his own profession'
- Giacomo Di Grassi's 'True Art of Defence'
In Spain in the 1930s, the social force and organizations of the proletariat were much stronger than in Russia of 1917, and yet the Spanish Revolution failed.
--Santiago Lupe, "Class, Party and Leadership: Lessons from the Spanish Revolution" in Left Voice #2, Spring 2017
A key moment came in 2012 when the GI [Grupo Internacionalista] had its first national conference where it fused with the Permanent Revolution Study Group in Oaxaca and with the Revolutionary Hip-Hop Activists (ARH).
--"International Perspectives of the League for the Fourth International," conference document from the First National Conference of the Internationalist Group, printed in The Internationalist, No. 40, Summer 2015
"So it was that our ears prickled at strange new sounds: the lighter, shingle-snapping crack of the Japanese rifle, the gargle of their extremely fast machine guns, the hiccup of their light mortars."
- Helmet For My Pillow (1957), by Robert Leckie
"A second time the trumpeter sounded his horn--which now brought to the door the shield-bearers of the captains."
- The Story of the Irish Race (1921), by Seumas MacManus
"Just because half of Lothal probably knew by now didn't mean they wouldn't eventually have to say something official."
- Thrawn (2017), by Timothy Zahn
— Curse of the Crimson Throne #2: Seven Days to the Grave, by numerous individuals from Paizo.
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'When the roundhouse is directed against the shin, there are several possible targets: hitting the ball of the calf muscle temporarily numbs the leg or causes bruising; hitting the shin proper, especially if the weight is on that leg, jars and damages both the knee and ankle joints'
Ninja Shins of Death, by Ashida Kim.
Another important disagreement came about because the South American Secretariat wanted to impose a specific form of organization mirroring the Russian Communist Party, but many political parties were resistant to this.
--Arielle Concilio and Jimena Vergara, "José Carlos Mariátegui, Latin American Communism, and the Russian Revolution," in Left Voice #3; "Memories of the Future: 100 Years from the Russian Revolution," Winter 2017-2018
(In which La Principessa gets promoted to the Editorial Board, and one of the authors of the piece was rooming in Brooklyn with another Moreonite upon whom I developed a crush before learning that she is gay.)
I don't think that the southern Negroes require a slogan in order to create defense guards, for this is already in their consciousness.
--Richard S. Fraser, "Contribution to the Discussion on the Slogan 'Send Federal Troops to Mississippi'" originally published in the Socialist Workers Party (US) Discussion Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 13 (October, 1957), republished in In Memoriam: Richard S. Fraser; An Appreciation and Selection of His Work, published by the Prometheus Research Library
The beneficiaries of this campaign were to be that narrow segment of the black population which is middle class or close to it and is commonly called "the black bourgeoisie."
--from "Black Power--Class Power: Once Again on Black Power," Spartacist West Vol. 1, No. 8, 30 September 1966; reprinted in Marxist Bulletin 5 (Revised): What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism as printed by the Internationalist Group
was rooming in Brooklyn with another Moreonite upon whom I developed a crush before learning that she is gay.
Who put out a video from Buenos Aries last night or this morning.
"Someone is looking for you" - Gabriel Zevin, Because it is in My Blood (Hebrew translation), #2 in the Birthright series.
"And it happened to me" - Lois Lowry, The Giver
"And they watched with great pleasure" - Robert Graves, I, Claudius
"Reckon you're gettin' to be quite a gal, makin' coffee for your old pa," said Lucas.
--Grace Metalious--Peyton Place
[Comrade Anklebiter hat]
Even after the defeat of the rebels during the most famous of the maroon wars in the 1790s, when the British cynically broke their promise not to expel those who surrendered, the maroons, after a brief stay in Nova Scotia, arrived as disgruntled exiles in Sierra Leone in time to put down a rebellion.
--Eugene D. Genovese, From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
Many American slaveholders also permitted blacks to keep chickens and sometimes hogs, to raise vegetables to supplement their diets, and to sell the products of their "kitchen gardens" to raise spending money.
--Eric Foner, Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
and, since the latest commie pamphlet didn't make it to page 55, from page 5:
"Their swords were not drawn and could not be drawn simply for themselves alone."
--Frederick Douglass on the Haitian Revolution, quoted in "Birth of the First Black Republic: 1791-1804: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution" in Black History and the Class Struggle No. 6: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution (1989)
"They had found common ground, somewhere, and seemed to enjoy one another's company."
A Memory of Light, Book 14 and last (finally!) in The Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
"But isn’t it kind of funny how we’re basically getting rid of all the people who want to ask questions?"
The End is Nigh - a collection of short stories about the apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey
The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump.
--Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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'Hearing her so much deplored, he made enquiry after her, and grew so in love with the description that no other discourse could at first please him, not could he endure any other; he grew desperately melancholy, and would go to a mount where the print of her foot was cut, and lie there pining and kissing of it all the day long, till at length death, in some months' space, concluded his languishment'
- From 'Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson', written by his widow Lucy.
"Yes."
--Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion