-“I remember my father telling me about England’s redrawing of India’s boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu from the Muslim, but they used outdated maps. Twelve million people had to relocate because the Brits screwed it up so badly. And a half million people died during the resulting chaos. And before that, Iraq was unilaterally cobbled together, causing many of the conflicts we see today. There are dozens of such examples. The strong countries smashing the weaker ones and then avoiding responsibility later for the very problems they caused.”-“ You keep proving my point, Tom, that we’re rotten to the core.”-“ My point is we never learn!. David Baldacci
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In the movie, The Kings of Summer, a father and his teenage sons move to a new house in the woods. The father is trying to teach them how to be more responsible and make a better life for themselves. He tells them, "We don't want a vacation here. We want a home.

And we want to be damn sure this is where we want to live the rest of our lives. If not, we'll just go back out into the world and try it someplace else." The Kings of Summer is a movie about two young boys who have been left behind by their parents as they go on a roadtrip. The boys' parents have gone on vacation and have left their sons alone in the new house they have bought with an old family friend.

The boys are written as being naive, but they are also portrayed as being quite mature for their age. They know what they want and know how to get it. In this quote from Tom Hanks' movie, he mentions that even though they now live in this house, their parents will probably still leave them behind when they go on vacation again. They won't really be able to afford this house without their parents there to help them fix it up and fix things that need fixing up if something is wrong like it might be with plumbing or electricity or something like that. The Kings of Summer is about two young boys looking for independence and trying out living on their own for the first time and learning how to survive and grow up and all those kinds of things.

Source: The Camel Club

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