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#1

“Why is it that good times aren't permitted to last? Especially when we have put in so much time and effort, as these two had? It is as if enjoying the fruits of our labours is one of life's luxuries that we are not permitted to indulge for too long - one day we have summer sun and the next winter storms !”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

tags: effort, everything-changes, everything-changes-in-a-moment, fruits-of-labor, good-times, maximum-effort, not-permitted, nothing-is-easy, nothing-is-for-sure, nothing-is-permanent, nothing-lasts-for-long, nothing-lasts-forever, summer-sun, winter-storms

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#2

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

tags: affirmations, author, c-toni-graham, commitment, inspirational, ya-author

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#3

“Where is the sense of outrage for our Muslim neighbors, Dearborn citizens all? Should we not feel the same sense of violation and shock even though these worshipers pray to a different version of God than we do?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Justice

tags: courtroom-drama, discrimination, first-amendment, immigration, justice, politics, predjudice, religious-bias, terrorist-attack, white-supremacy

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#4

“Just a middle-age man with all the privilege that unasked for gift affords. When in truth it seems, we see suffering as the province of children, mothers, wives and lovers. Broken, struck by the hand of a man’s blind ambition, brutish strength. What of the gentle-man with the soft voice…”
― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

tags: heartwarming, memoir, nonfiction

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#5

“I was alone. I had no one. No mother, no father, no brothers, no sisters, no grandmas, no grandpas, no uncles, no aunties, no cousins, and no tribe. I’d seen the children at the orphanage laugh or cry when they received news about a family member. I would never receive such news and no family would laugh or cry for me. That day I understood with sharp clarity that I didn’t have a mother who wanted me.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

tags: abandonment, autobiography, bravery, family, heartbreak, inspirational, isolation, orphan, self-love

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#6

“كم هو قصيرٌ الحب، وكم هو طويلٌ النسيان”
― بابلو نيرودا, عشرون قصيدة حب وأغنية يائسة

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#7

“We want everyone to follow their dreams, their hearts (aren't they bursting, like ours?); we want them doing things that we will find interesting.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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#8

“What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#9

“It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

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#10

“Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.” Maltbie D. Babcock (1858–1901) WRITER AND CLERGYMAN”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Magic

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#11

“Ingen är normal.”
― Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

tags: normalitet

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#12

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, inspiring, soldiers, veterans

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#13

“Attractive, blonde, skinny, a little slutty, and… well, I kind of talked to her about you. She’s already keen. You should be able to slide straight into second base.’ Mags laughed again. Nathan didn’t. It had been a while. And then some. He glanced over to the wardrobe. Maybe the dark blue shirt.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: mystery-thriller, suspense, thriller

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#14

“Get up you lazy bastard. The Governor wants a word with you,” said a guard.  He opened his eyes and smiled. There was another guard standing near the cell door in  anticipation of any trouble. The prisoner smiled at him, too.  Now what can the Governor want from me? He wondered. His dishevelled form seemed  incapable of coherent thought. “It’s nice of him to remember me,” he said aloud, trying to  concentrate. “Surprising he’s got any time for a worthless shit like you,” said the first guard.  “I once used to be a very important person,” the prisoner said feebly.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: 21st-century, action, drama, intrigue, thriller, thriller-novels-best

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#15

“We have three sets of passports. Two are Egyptian with false names.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: conspiracy, crime, desire, dynamic, espionage, fiction, identity, military, success, thriller

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#16

“Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: faithfulness, materialism, security, stewardship

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#17

“Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground.
As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.'' -The boy in the striped Pajamas”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#18

“Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

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#19

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
― Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution

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