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    Yvonne Korshak
    “Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: adventure, athens, democracy, educational, evolution, fiction, greece, love, novel
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    Max Nowaz
    “I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,” laughed Adam. “We won’t have to dispose of the body. I’ll get a pan and brush in a minute and flush him down the toilet.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, magical, realistic, thriller, urban-fantasy
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    Milan Kordestani
    “We cannot train ourselves to be perfect, but we can ensure we have better intuition when it comes to human behavior.”
    ― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
    tags: break-down-barriers, build-bridges, civil-disclosure, empowering, failures, inspiring, perspectives, social-media, thoughtful
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    Anne Michaud
    “Eleanor stayed with Franklin after his repeated infidelities, and yet toward the end of her life, she regretted it, and advised her children to choose differently. ‘Never for a minute would I advocate that people who no longer love each other should live together because it does not bring the right atmosphere into a home,’ she wrote. She added that it was sad when a couple was unable to make a success of marriage, ‘but I feel it is equally unwise for people to bring up children in homes where love no longer exists.”
    ― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
    tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships
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    “We lack spiritual-warfare tactics and spiritual-warfare training, and we also lack understanding of the arsenals of heaven because we do not have the faith to confront the devil.”
    ― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom
    tags: biblical, christ, christian, christian-spiritual-growth, christianity, deliverance-from-evil, faith-in-god, spiritual, spiritual-freedom, spiritual-welfare
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    “Throughout the process, you must show gratitude to those who have helped you get to where you are.”
    ― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
    tags: anecdotes, challenge, decisions, faith, fortitude, living-with-pain, overcome, survive, triumph
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    “The Kielburgers are extremely accomplished and educated people who have demonstrated that they know how to build an organization, sell a vision, and court powerful people. If they had wanted to make loads of money and eat caviar on a private yacht, they could have taken lucrative private-sector jobs and done just that. It is absurd to think that they instead decided to work sixteen-hour days for twenty-five years, spend hundreds of days per year apart from their families, and invest everything they had in building a global charity—all as a means to funnel money back to themselves.”
    ― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
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    Lou Marinoff
    “Για να είναι κανείς ανθρώπινος, πρέπει να συναναστρέφεται με ανθρώπους.”
    ― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems
    tags: άνθρωπος, ανθρώπινος, συναναστροφή
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none - except possibly folk dancing.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
    tags: folk-dancing
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    Daniel Defoe
    “That they're no longer ashamed to sin, and but are ashamed to repent; no longer ashamed of the motion for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, however are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed smart men.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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    Paramahansa Yogananda
    “[His] modesty... reminded me of the trees that bend low with the burden of ripening fruits; it is the barren tree that lifts its head high in an empty boast.”
    ― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
    tags: be-humble, boast, boastful, boasting, humbleness, humility, modest, modesty, pride
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld
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