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    Karl Braungart
    “Well, here’s the shocker,” said Kirby. “Majors Miller and McKinsey believe our former Captain Paul Remmich is acting as a spy for the Iraqi government.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity
    tags: cia, cold-war, conflict, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series, spy
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    Gina Buonaguro
    “The next week passed in a haze of mourning, as thick and disorienting as the unrelenting fog that crept over the stones of Venice each morning.”
    ― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
    tags: aristocratic-daughters, family, hopes, noblewomen, romance, secrets, strength, turmoil, women-s-rights
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    Karen Hinton
    “In the back of my mind, I thought maybe I would find my Robert Redford in New Orleans. We made our way to the city by afternoon and planned to drive home when the sun rose over Lake Pontchartrain. We had no idea where else to go, except to Bourbon Street. We walked toward the bright lights and glowing colors of one strip club after another…. In 1975, Big Daddy’s was the top, topless go-go joint on Bourbon.”
    ― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
    tags: coming-of-age, entertaining, glass-ceiling, human-weakness, karen-hinton, men, power, pros, women
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    “The only way I knew how to live the best day ever was on an expedition.”
    ― Hendri Coetzee
    tags: dare-to-dream, determination, difficulty, explorer, grit, hope, inspiring, life-goals, travel
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “وقتی مسافرها از عزیزترین خاطراتشان حرف می‌زنند، به‌هیچ‌وجه قادر نیستند حقیقت را پنهان کنند. زن‌وشوهری ممکن است ادعا کنند عاشق همدیگران، اما ما به‌جای عشق در وجودشان بیزاری، خشم، یا حتی نفرت می‌بینیم. یا نوعی بیهودگی عمیق، گاهی فقط ترس از تنهایی و بس.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
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    George Eliot
    “People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: bravery, neighbors
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    Lois Lowry
    “and we have been told that they may come tonight”
    ― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
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    Neal Stephenson
    “Rife's key realization was that there's no difference between modern culture and Sumerian. We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV-which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite-the people who go into the Meatverse, basically-who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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    Aimee Cabo Nikolov
    “God is the Cure, Love is the Answer”
    ― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, God is the Cure, Love is the Answer : A Memoir
    tags: abuse, betrayal, devine, fight, god, hope, life, strength, truth, unrest
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    J.D. Salinger
    “If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
    tags: teddy
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    Philip Gourevitch
    “significant concentrations of Hutu Power military and militia members among the IDPs [International Displaced Persons] made the camps themselves a major threat ... As in the border camps, interahamwe agents didn't hesitate to threaten and attack those who wished to leave Kibeho, fearing that a mass desertion of the civilian population would leave them isolated and exposed.”
    ― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
    tags: genocide, history, rwanda, united-nations
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    Emma Donoghue
    “I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing.”
    ― Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
    tags: age, intelligence, know-what-you-don-t-know, knowledge, smart, wisdom, wisdom-comes-from-experience
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    Jojo Moyes
    “... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
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    Solomon Northup
    “It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.”
    ― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave
    tags: blame, forgiveness, politics, slavery
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    Emmuska Orczy
    “... Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days --- the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the whole of the continent of Europe was a den of immorality and the rest of the world an unexploited land of savages and cannibals.”
    ― Baroness Orczy
    tags: england, insularity, parochialism, racism
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