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#1

“If he shows aptitude toward the A’ris element, meaning toward the healing arts, then he should contact the Healer’s Collage. Not that they would know much about magic. Anyone can become a healer these days.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

tags: fiction-writing, science-fiction, young-adult

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#2

“From the antique Persian rugs covering the gleaming hardwood floors to the molded tin ceilings and ornate chandeliers, the house was a showstopper. Throughout its long life, no one had allowed this home to fall into disrepair. Every detail of the wainscoting, every pocket door, every window, floor tile, and bathtub was original to the house.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

tags: cozy-mystery, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, sweet-romance

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#3

“The money felt scratchy, hard against his skin. He wished he had a nice, sensitive woman to share the party with. No one. Tears wet his eyes. He didn’t try to stop them.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

tags: murder, mystery, who-done-it

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#4

“More than ever before the framework for absolute global control and oppression is now firmly in place. We have all been part of an evolution into a “new society” subject to authoritarian forms of government with militarised police forces at home and imperialistic policies abroad. In this “new society” the rich and powerful elites can have and do whatever they want, while the poor and powerless are left shackled and in desperate need.”
― William Hanna, The Grim Reaper

tags: crimes-against-humanity, fighting-for-truth, humanity, worldview

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#5

“Rulebreakers are like great artists, sometimes we don’t recognise what they give us until it’s too late.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

tags: artists, change, pirates, rebels, rulebreaking

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#6

“Why should we be receptive to the ups and downs of multiple adoption stories? When we allow the elite 1% to speak for us, they will share from their perspective, and naturally, this point of view is tainted with doing whatever is possible to protect their reputation. In other words, I've learned that what pro-adoption lobbyists claim to be "in the best interest of the child" is truly not always in the best interest of the child.”
― Janine Myung Ja, Adoption Stories

tags: adoption-story, children, find-the-truth

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#7

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#8

“We can be beacons of light”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

tags: inspirational

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#9

“You don’t have to be around long to understand the world is a frightening place, that life includes situations you have no control over, that anything can happen. Everybody needs friends and a family.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

tags: family-drama, novel-writing

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#10

“I know who I’m talking to, Mr. Barrington. I’m talking to a man who is willing to kill a teenager if it helps him defend a wrongful death personal injury lawsuit. I’m talking to a scumbag who is willing to betray his country for money. I grant you did what you did for a large sum of money, but treason is still treason, regardless of how much is involved.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal High

tags: bullying, courtroom-drama, crime-fiction, dramatic, emotional, gun-control, psychological, school-shooting, second-amendment

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#11

“Coffee, ever since it became impossible to buy it in Germany, has assumed a weird importance in one's life.”
― William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

tags: war, war-reporting, world-war-two

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#12

“flouncing”
― Wilson Rawls, Summer of the Monkeys

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#13

“The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: french, humor

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#14

“As long as one suffers one lives.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

tags: life, suffering

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#15

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

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#16

“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

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#17

“They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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#18

“Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
― Robert Heinlein

tags: piety, religion, understanding, wisdom, zealotry

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#19

“He was polishing the glass with a dead hen.”
― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

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#20

“You never know how much time you'll have.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host

tags: melanie, stephenie-meyer, the-host

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#21

“In the nineteenth century, girls who learned to develop orgasmic capacity by masturbation were regarded as medical problems. Often they were 'treated' or 'corrected' by amputation or cautery of the clitoris or 'miniature chastity belts,' sewing the vaginal lips together to put the clitoris out of reach, and even castration by surgical removal of the ovaries. But there are no references in the medical literature to the surgical removal of testicles or amputation of the penis to stop masturbation in boys.
In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948-- on a five-year-old girl.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

tags: clitoridectomy, clitoris, fgm, masturbation, medical-violence-against-women, medicine

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#22

“Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it "the atmosphere of hell;" and I believe it is so.”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

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#23

“As far as the political, military, and economic interests of the world’s powers go, (Rwanda) might as well be Mars. In fact, Mars is probably of greater strategic concern. But Rwanda, unlike Mars, is populated by human beings, and when Rwanda had a genocide, the world’s powers left Rwanda to it.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

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#24

“People think of education as something they can finish.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: education

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#25

“He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#26

“You may even tell me, "Miguel, what you are saying is hurting me." But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

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#27

“The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.”
― Richard Feynman

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#28

“I realize that if love were the cure, I would have been healed a long time ago.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

tags: love, mental-health, mental-illness

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#29

“I can’t cry so I have to laugh.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

tags: brave, determined, enduring, inspirational, overcoming-adversity, powerful, strong, survivor, unwavering

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#30

“Oh C'mon. Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity. You can't stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won't leak, or at least leak on the people who are gonna vote for you.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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