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  • #1
    Rick Mystrom
    “People all over the United States are ready to try to take off the unwanted weight they gained. They’re ready to start walking, jogging, riding bikes, taking exercise classes, walking the malls, or just moving more outside. They’re hoping to lose the weight they have gained. But they’ll fail, mostly.”
    Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

  • #2
    S.G. Blaise
    “Are you telling me that they argue by fistfighting?!” I say. “How . . .? I mean, why . . .? I mean, stop this!”
    S.G. Blaise, True Teryn

  • #3
    Max Nowaz
    “Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.”
“They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.”
But Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on
automatically. There was nobody there.
“What’s going…...” but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the
side of his head and everything went black.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #4
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #5
    Harvey Havel
    “The television set then came after her, chomping its teeth.  Upon reaching the living room, the television succeeded at eating her body bit-by-bit: first the legs, then the body, and finally her flailing arms.”
    Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

  • #6
    C. Toni Graham
    “To remain stagnant is a waste since movement is essential to achievement. Those consumed with the barriers of “what if’s” will avoid perceived risks and lean on excuses for inaction. Excuses keep those that are afraid of change from progressing. ”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #7
    Michael Tobert
    “Julia, hanging back, says, ‘How have you been, Stephen?’
    I want to tell her everything. I want to find out what she’s been doing, what she plans to do but, at this fated moment, a vision of my stomach floats before me. It is a soggy marsh, green rushes growing round the edges, gas bubbles surfacing all over and bursting. The bubbling of the marsh is set to the music of creation, the percussive glottal stops of the Big Bang. I realize I have, at best, one complete sentence left in me. ‘Julia,’ I begin, composing in my head a deranged paean of love that I can never utter. ‘I regret that I am not myself today. Terry has poisoned me.’
    ‘You should go home,’ she says.”
    Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

  • #8
    Charles Dowding
    “It’s incredible to reflect on how much knowledge and growth power is contained in seeds.”
    Charles Dowding

  • #9
    Lisa See
    “My mother used to tell me that Heaven never seals off all exits.”
    Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

  • #10
    “When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
    Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates

  • #11
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “A great deal of undigested morality is uttered to the world, under the disguise of a pretended public virtue. In the eye of reason, the man who deliberately and voluntarily contracts civil engagements is more strictly bound to their fulfilment, than he whose whole obligations consist of an accident over which he had not the smallest control, that of birth ; though the very reverse of this is usually maintained undei the influence of popular prejudice.”
    James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte

  • #12
    Miguel Ruiz
    “When you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts.”
    Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

  • #13
    Robert Jordan
    “Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?"
    "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.”
    Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm

  • #14
    Max Nowaz
    “Stand in the machine there, let’s see what state your internal organs are in. The images
will be projected on screen, and I can go through the diagnosis with you, step by step.”
Brown did as he was told and soon images of his vital organs appeared on the screen.
 As you can see, your heart is slightly enlarged and your lungs and kidneys are not in
good shape either. Have you been experiencing any pain lately?”
“Not that I can think of. What can you do to help?”
“Difficult to say, you see you are dying” said the Doctor. You can see the
discolouration in your kidneys.” Brown strained his eyes.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #15
    A.R. Merrydew
    “     Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
    A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

  • #16
    Dean Mafako
    “When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!”
    DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

  • #17
    “Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
    that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
    through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
    to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
    know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
    Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

  • #18
    Claudia   Clark
    “At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama,’ and an overly ambitious Obama, who perhaps thought that was his cue, headed toward the podium.  Perhaps catching the president’s movement out of the corner of her eye, Merkel thought quickly, and without even looking up from her notes, she told the excited American president, in English, ‘Not yet, dear Mr. President, dear Barack Obama.’ Obama sheepishly returned to his seat to allow the chancellor to finish her speech.”
    Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

  • #19
    Ajay Agrawal
    “But we need to do more. We are now in The Between Times for AI—between the demonstration of the technology’s capability and the realization of its promise reflected in widespread adoption.”
    Ajay Agrawal, Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

  • #20
    Joseph Campbell
    “Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.”
    Joseph Campbell
    tags: myth

  • #21
    Jules Verne
    “Adieu, soleil ! s'écria-t-il. Disparais, astre radieux ! Couche-toi sous cette mer libre, et laisse une nuit de six mois étendre ses ombres sur mon nouveau domaine !”
    Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

  • #22
    Scott Westerfeld
    “Lace: "Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?"

    Cal: "Um, maybe?”
    Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

  • #23
    Peter B. Forster
    “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

  • #24
    “Real life is so…messy.”
    Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

  • #25
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Los espejos y la cópula son abominables, porque multiplican el número de los hombres.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones



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