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#1

“Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: brain, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientists

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#2

“Get a child interested in learning a skill while young and they will remember forever.”
― Sybrina Durant

tags: learn-a-skill, remember-forever, teach-a-child

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#3

“Anything good in the briefcase?” he asked.
I smiled back at him. “Everything’s good in the briefcase, Walter.”
― Mark Barkawitz, Full Moon Saturday Night

tags: action-packed, actor, drug-lord, drugs, hollywood, humorous, informant, los-angeles, screenwriter, undercover

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#4

“We Are brothers, tied by blood, in our veins, what we spill. But it is a deadly secret that will forever bind us.”
― Tina Traverse, Destiny of the Vampire

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#5

“While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. Outstanding introverted leaders, such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Patrick White and Arthur Boyd, who have created either new fields of thought or rearranged existing knowledge, have spent long periods of their lives in solitude. Hence leadership does not only apply in social situations, but also occurs in more solitary situations such as developing new techniques in the arts, creating new philosophies, writing profound books and making scientific breakthroughs.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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#6

“Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.”
― Randy Pausch

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#7

“How do we find the thing we are meant to do? How do we become ourselves? These are enormous questions for every young artists, but they can only be answered in retrospect. We see the path only after we've been on it for quite a long time. We read a book and we wonder how it was made. We wonder about the person who made it. We wonder if we could make something like that ourselves.”
― Audrey Niffenegger

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#8

“She was a literal person who did not read, she was content rather than curious about the world.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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#9

“street”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

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#10

“I often found it helpful to think of central Africa in the mid-1990s as comparable to late medieval Europe - plagued by serial wars of tribe and religion, corrupt despots, predatory elites and a superstitious peasantry, festering with disease, stagnating in poverty, and laden with promise.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

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#11

“They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

tags: conversation, friendship, making-up

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#12

“Hey, I’m an upstander—not a bystander!”
― R.J. Palacio, 365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Precepts

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#13

“Some things are hard to let go of.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: let-go, tobias, tris

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#14

“This game’s principal purpose is to expose your mind to the experience of firsthand evidence of money coming to you, with you not having to reach out for it. You may have to take action to formalise receiving the gift, but ideally you are not to reach out and look for it: it should just show up.”
― Daniel Mangena, Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life

tags: finances, financial-flow, financial-gains, money-blocks, new-thought, play-the-money-game, practicality, relationships-with-money, resourceful, sage

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#15

“I’m not sure what made me think God would choose to reveal himself to little ol’ me. I think I believed that if I pleaded often and hard enough, he would see how sincere I was and grant my request, kind of like Linus and the Great Pumpkin. My sincerity would win him over so he would choose my pumpkin patch -- or, in this case, my bedroom -- to make a brief personal appearance. Unfortunately, that never happened.”
― Spencer C Demetros, The Bible: Enter Here: Bringing God's Word to Life for Today's Teens

tags: biblical-message, book-of-god, christian, christianity, faith, find-god, humour, love, teens, young-adult

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#16

“I am torn by duty and desire.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

tags: action-and-adventure, dystopian-fiction, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-novel, suspense

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#17

“As I began to assess her, I have to say to be in Mirza Almazan’s presence was a strange feeling. She gave off a powerful aura of high spirt, intellect, and strength. I took it all in and literally basked in it.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: murder-mystery, mystery-thriller, thriller-novels

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#18

“That Kevin Burns, the one on television, is easy to hate, even to despise. He shot and tried to kill my son. He killed nine people. This Kevin Burns, a helpless child in prison garb and cuffs, looks meek and terrified, especially in the backdrop of a jail complex and cell, with two giant guards escorting him into the deposition room. ”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal High

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

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#19

“Thee mustn't speak evil of thy rulers, Simeon," said his father, gravely. "The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

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#20

“TO BE “THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it” was the primary function of the Crusades,”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

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#21

“When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle’s eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn. Well, they were going to destroy it again, were they - this garden Earth, civilized and knowing, to be torn apart again that man might hope again in wretched darkness.”
― Walter Miller Jr.

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#22

“The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.”
― Christine M Knight, Life Song

tags: hope, inspirtational, overcoming-adversity, triumph

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#23

“The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, Split... Civility For A Divided Nation

tags: democrats, political, politics, republicans

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#24

“What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: books

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#25

“The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.”
― Michael Crichton, Congo

tags: meaning-of-life

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#26

“No,” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.”
“I’m still not kissing you,” Michael said.
“Tease.”
― Rachel Caine, Last Breath

tags: funny, michael, shane

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#27

“Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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#28

“We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words—Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over your tongue till it tingles with it. Power.”
― Jack London, The Iron Heel

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#29

“let no girl, no gun, no cards, no flutes, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness decoy you from your books.”
― David McCullough, John Adams

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#30

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
― Voltaire

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