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    Anne Michaud
    “For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. People learn intimacy at home, and when those early standards are set too low, a wife may second-guess her judgment about when and whether she should leave.”
    ― 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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    Simone Collins
    “People experience anger when their expectations around how they should be treated don’t align with their actual treatment (or when they expect a thing to happen based on some series of actions and it does not happen).”
    ― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
    tags: better-future, culture, cultures, diversity, environmentalists, fertility-decline, human-nature, humanity, population-decline, preserve
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    Steven Decker
    “Time travel was invented by the Community of Minds in 2183. I was a thirty-four-year-old billionaire and had fallen in love with one of my assistants a few years prior.  ”
    ― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time
    tags: action, adventure, creatures, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, metaphysical, science, travel
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    “Choose joy.”
    ― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
    tags: community, faith, health, mental-health, physical-ailments, post-transplant, spiritual-health, transition, transplant
    67 likes

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    Milan Kordestani
    “Self-reflection improves civil discourse by pushing you toward reason.”
    ― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
    tags: connection, empathy, experience, personal, reflections, social-commentary, thought, young-generation
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    William Kely McClung
    “The boy registered them but didn’t answer, already turned inward. He was counting backward from a thousand in multiples of four while working multiplication tables of seven until they met.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
    tags: black-ops, exploits, fury, kidnap, military, mission, murder, sex-trafficking, suspense, violent
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy.”
    ― S.E. Hinton
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: self-reliance
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Richelle Mead
    “You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I'll get you out of here, no matter what.”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
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    Mary Doria Russell
    “In science, all sensibly phrased questions are at least potentially answerable, while answers to the questions of faith are, by their very definition, unknowable. With The Sparrow, I hoped to show that both kinds of questions are worth asking, and worth thinking deeply about.”
    ― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
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    Marissa Meyer
    “She definitely has a crush on you. It's about the size of Jupiter.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Winter
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