Blue Flame - Robert A. Webster

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First edition

Table of Contents

Part One

1

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

2

If you want to shine like the sun, first you have to burn like it.

3

Things are not always right because they are hard, but if they are right one must not mind if they are also hard.

4

For there is one thing we must never forget; the majority can never replace the man.

5

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

6

The true guide of life is to do what is right.

7

If youre going through hell, keep going.

8

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck

9

Life doesnt forgive weakness.

10

Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have

11

Mankind grew strong through eternal struggle; it follows that he shall perish through eternal peace

12

Gods and beasts, that is what our world is made of

13

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat

14

The price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts

15

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower

16

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

17

Words build bridges into unexplored regions

18

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

19

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

20

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right

21

Epilogue

23

In the not too distant future

24

Awakening

25

Revelation

26

If the oceans die, we die. We cant live on this planet with a dead ocean

27

The New Frontier

28

Theres money to be made by driving a species extinct

29

There is no such thing as sustainable seafood in a dying ocean

30

Bad actors make convincing politicians

31

Lesson 1: Greed stops the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment

32

Death is a great Equaliser

33

Life is a terminal illness

34

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master

35

There is Friendship in the heart of danger

36

Arrogance is knowledge without wisdom

37

There is no such thing as a foolproof plan if there are fools about

38

When love kills love

39

Lesson 2: Technology nurtures the human race

40

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

41

Love can start with an unexpected hello

42

Everything is an illusion

43

Into the Belly of the Beast

44

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact

45

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception

46

Lesson 3: Faith is a commodity easily bought