6 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Kroese

Robert Kroese received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Hundred Years of Solitude: A History of Cuba and its Destiny, An Enduring Hope: A Memoir of the Cuban Revolution, The Cuban Economy under Castro, and The Cuban Economy in Transition. Dr. Kroese is an associate professor at the University of Florida, where he teaches courses in Latin American history and U.S.-Latin American foreign policy Read more

He served as a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 2004-05.

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Boric, feeling dizzy and light-headed, shambled toward Randor’s corpse, which was still making an impressive effort to pump blood to Randor’s head. His head unfortunately lay some three feet away – an insurmountable distance for even the most robust circulatory system. Robert Kroese
He had intended his address to be somewhat more comprehensive...
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He had intended his address to be somewhat more comprehensive than this but was forced to cut it short, having been stabbed between the ribs with a broadsword. Robert Kroese
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...but there's always he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean."" Wow that would be terrific, " I said Robert Kroese
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What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness. Robert Kroese
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The crowd was getting hysterical, so I reached into my back pocket and flippe open my wallet to reveal my badge. "Official business, " I announced. "Please leave the area." This had the desired effect; it deescalated the mood and prompted most of the crowd to disperse. It's funny what a plastic badge and a meaningless phrase can do. The authority of the police is anothe mass delusion that can be useful at times. I hadn't even needed to claim I was a cop; all it took was a couple of simple cues to invoke the delusion. Robert Kroese