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    Yvonne Korshak
    “It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-greece, conflict, greek-gods, historical-fiction, love-story, romance, spartans
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    Michael Parker
    “And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them.”
    ― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
    tags: action-packed, adventure, bombs, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, military, navy, special-ops, thrilling
    113 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting my people a partial freedom which is always subject to the approval of any laws we make by the Japanese Government in Tokyo!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
    tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, inspiring, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty
    196 likes

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    Mary Stewart
    “I think that knowing the future might be disturbing, but it can be good as well; knowing and not being frightened, having the time to make all one's arrangements, and knowing that there are good hands waiting for the things and people one cares about.”
    ― Mary Stewart, Thornyhold
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  • #5
    “Businesses and entrepreneurs have become experts at microwaving rather than Crock-Potting their business plan. They are so worried about the moment, Q1 or Q2, that they lose their vision and their soul. They trade real, rich, abiding, deep success for the momentary win and then are constantly having to start over. Have a long-term vision and execute it. As the billionaire advised me, slow and steady wins the race.”
    ― Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
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    Angie Thomas
    “No. That’s not even her biggest problem,” says Jay. “Pooh doesn’t know who she is, and by not knowing who she is, she doesn’t know her worth. So, who are you?”
    ― Angie Thomas, On the Come Up
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    Jonathan Swift
    “A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge beyond what is merely domestic, renders them vain, conceited and pretending.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: c18th-misogyny, women-and-reading, women-s-education
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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  • #9
    “The Bonaccorso brothers are serious muscle, though if they were any dumber they’d be dumber than rocks.”
    ― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
    tags: black-market, destruction, dramatic, gambling, love, mob, murder, neo-noir, new-york, noir-fiction
    81 likes

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  • #10
    “Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing
    345 likes

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    Fons Burger
    “If we are to find the only possible solution, it won’t come from fixing one thing at a time, it will come from seeing the whole - and realizing that we are part of it, not above it, not beside it, but within it, woven through it.”
    ― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
    tags: big-ideas, environmental-conservation, environmental-nonfiction, environmental-protection, future-generations, interconnectedness, long-term-thinking, quote-of-the-day, systems-thinking
    77 likes

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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “Venice would not be who she is without her music lingering around every narrow calle and corner.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: beautiful-writing, cultural-fiction, historical-fiction, italian-history, music, setting-as-character, venice
    154 likes

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    S.E. Stitcher
    “This guy is poised to kill again, and soon. So I need you to get to Crestview pronto. The clock is ticking.”
    ― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher
    tags: crime-thriller, dark-suspense, fbi-profiler, police-procedural, race-against-time, serial-killer-hunt, weekend-reads
    329 likes

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    Behcet Kaya
    “The eleven iPhones are set up identical to the Androids. But it’s a whole different scenario as far as the Bitcoin wallets. They all have currency in them, and none has been sent out. I labeled each one with the amount in each of the wallets. It comes to a total of more than four billion.”
    “Four billion? Are you sure it’s not million?”
    “I’m sure, Boss. Four billion in available cryptocurrency.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance
    tags: action, adventure, bitcoin, crime, iphone, murder, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller
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    Robert Reid
    “Later, back in the Den of Thieves, Rafe explained it all to Raimund. The boy was partially mollified. Rafe did not know about Raimund’s dreams, and Raimund did not enlighten him, so Raimund puzzled by himself. What did it mean? How had Aleana come to be in the prison cell under the protection of the young man from his dreams – in the arms of the young man who was now the occupant of his family’s old cottage? How had the man ended up in prison, and what was his crime? Most importantly, what would happen to Aleana?”
    ― Robert Reid, The Thief
    tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy
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    Chaim Potok
    “One tended to garrulity when one’s stock of years and memories attained to a certain level.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Book of Lights
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “This country goes three thousand miles west, now. It goes ’way out beyond Kansas, and beyond the Great American Desert, over mountains bigger than these mountains, and down to the Pacific Ocean. It’s the biggest country in the world, and it was farmers who took all that country and made it America, son. Don’t you ever forget that.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “you got to figure out which end of the needle you’re gon be, the one that’s fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
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    Roald Dahl
    “So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The BFG
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    Lisa See
    “أليست الاحلام هي ما تمنحنا القوة والأمل والرغبة”
    ― Lisa See, موعد مع القدر : زهرة الفاوانيا العاشقة
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  • #21
    Frank Miller
    “I shall become a bat”
    ― Frank Miller, Batman: Year One
    tags: batman, frank-miller, year-one
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