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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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    Mark M. Bello
    “All this Second Amendment shit is a money grab for these people. Follow the damned money!”
    ― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal High
    tags: bullying, courtroom-drama, crime-fiction, dramatic, emotional, gun-control, psychological, school-shooting, second-amendment
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
    382 likes

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    Milan Kordestani
    “Honest self-reflection is true self-reflection.”
    ― 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
    161 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Geneva peace accords said that it recognized the nationality and fundamental rights of the Vietnamese people including their sovereignty, their territory and unity. Due to the Geneva Conference allowing the imperialist combined forces of the Franco-USA coalition, on the one hand to hold South Vietnam under the 17th parallel and allowing the National resistance by the People of Vietnam to hold the north on the other, it stopped the Vietnamese from completely liberating their country. (Vein, 2009)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war
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    Donald Montano
    “The war is over. Black people got rights now, just like us white folk. Besides…” he tapped his chest. “It’s what in here that counts.”
    ― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions
    tags: i-don-t-want-to-go-there-again
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    “no one seemed to be thinking about how the “scandal” was affecting the lives of WE Charity’s beneficiaries. Her constant refrain was “The biggest loss was to the children.”
    ― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
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    Steven Decker
    “Assemble the links
Piece by piece.
Then travel through time And earn your release.”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain
    tags: action, adventure, drama, excitement, exciting, fiction, griping, intrigue, thrilling, time-travel
    64 likes

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    Lou Marinoff
    “Your happiness does not depend so much on what kind of body you have, but on how well you take care of it.”
    ― Lou Marinoff, The Power of Tao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
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    Anne Michaud
    “We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be,” Elizabeth Edwards wrote of her marriage to U.S. Sen. John Edwards. When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading became “the glue” that kept them together.”
    ― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
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    Margery Williams Bianco
    “When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.”
    ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
    tags: real
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    Stendhal
    “Kakva je to ljubav od koje se zeva?”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Henry stirs into life. 'Do I retain you for what is easy? Do you think it is for your personal beauty? The charm of your presence? I keep you, Master Cromwell, because you are as cunning as a bag of serpents. But do not be a viper in my bosom. You know my decision. Execute it.'
    pg. 585”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: cunning, henry-viii, thomas-cromwell, wolf-hall
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    Anthony Burgess
    “The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.”
    ― Nicole Krauss
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
    tags: teddy
    596 likes



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