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#1

“God had been orchestrating the events of my life behind the scenes for years, and I had no clue.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: adversity, fulfilling, health, insightful, life, live, personal, purposeful, succeed, transformational

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#2

“Sometimes they converge.
The field is fabricated to bring
two forces into conflict quickly
making them one: killing.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: adventure, ai, artificial-intelligence, drama, fantasy, fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, thrilling

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#3

“I was dreadfully concerned that this creature meant to harm me, but then a thought entered my mind. I am the one who moved Annette, Charles. And now, I will take you on a journey of your own. ”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: different, dystopian, escape, fear, fiction, mystery, plot-turns, unexpected, unknown

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#4

“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, love, page-turner, politics, suspense

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#5

“Washington reflected bitterly. He was short of money, gunpowder, shot, and food. All he had going for him was The Cause, the Rights of Man. Very noble and all that. But just add a whiff of money, gunpowder, shot, and food, and the old Cause might really click. Congress had pledged more help, of course, which, knowing Congress, meant that the aid might come in a decade or so, after the war was lost. He sighed and gazed heavenward. Was a tiny miracle too much to ask?”
― James Allen Moseley, The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream

tags: drama, dramatic, fight, historical, history, love, mighty, romance, travel, twentieth-century

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#6

“Tyler knelt and rummaged through the empty waste basket. He frowned. No glasses and no gum. “Wait a minute…” He walked up to the hanging toile and stared at it. What’s going on this looks like Aunt Meg’s wallpaper… Tyler stepped closer. He rubbed his hand over the paper and nothing happened. As he tried to pull the paper from the wall, two smaller greenish hands grabbed Tyler’s leg and pulled.”
― Mary K. Savarese, The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper

tags: adventure, coming-of-age-fiction, enchanting, engaging, fiction, intrigue, magical, unpredictable, ya-litterature

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#7

“He wondered what his father had been thinking in those last final moments as he was slipping away, whether the heroism, the honour, the war, or maybe, just maybe, the smaller people in his life, his family.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#8

“The Mind—Satan’s Battlefield Let me bring you into the enemy’s kingdom and the strategy of the devil in a deeper way. The first thing the enemy attacks is your mind. The enemy knows that the battle is in the mind, and he knows if he can capture the territory of your mind, your thoughts, and the way you operate, he’s got you in a stranglehold. The next move he makes will be to attack your soul. This includes your mind, will, and emotions. Once he’s got a person’s soul, he will paralyze that person and bring them down to nothing.”
― John Ramirez, Unmasking the Devil: Strategies to Defeat Eternity's Greatest Enemy

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#9

“In many ways, revenge is much like an extramarital affair.
It never just “happens.” Nobody cheats without having fantasized
about it in advance, without having savored the idea.
Revenge, like seduction, is a process. It is a game of inches.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: crime, murder-mystery, revenge, thriller

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#10

“The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training” to “protect our culture,” while they simultaneously paid $2 million a year for Dr. Porter to destroy it. It was a laughable facade, but instead I wanted to cry.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, drama, family-life, fiction, personal-growth, realistic, stress, strife, thriller

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#11

“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

tags: metooasachild

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#12

“I am afraid even now, that they are looking for me.
And I am afraid that they are not. That I am no longer
important enough for them to care. Just another
automaton, living the life I had been so afraid of, when I
drank it in cocktails all those years ago.”
― Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

tags: drama, entertaining, fiction, insightful, intrigue, literary-fiction, love, obsession, relationships

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#13

“-Who knows about this?
-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

tags: alan-sheinwald

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#14

“What do you believe, Aunt Elizabeth?'
'I believe. . . I am comfortable with reading the Bible figuratively rather than literally. For instance, I think the six days in Genesis are not literal days, but different periods of creation, so that it took many thousands --- or hundreds of thousands of years --- to create. It does not demean God; it simply gives Him more time to build this extraordinary world.'
'And the ichthyosaurus and plesiosaurus?'
'They are creatures from long, long ago. They remind us that the world is changing. Of course it is. I can see it change when there are landslips at Lyme that alter the shoreline. It changes when there are earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and floods. And why shouldn't it?”
― Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures

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#15

“You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.”
― Karl Marx

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#16

“Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

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#17

“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important,
and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him,
he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply
the fact that there are no brick and no temples. Any visible expression
of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers.

Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot he feels, perhaps, the
desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one
knee, and with hands supplicant, saying: "Yes, but I love myself.”
― Stephen Crane, Open Boat

tags: identity, irony, nihilist, nihilistic, pathos

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#18

“We are all special cases.”
― Albert Camus

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#19

“Is it not better," she said, "to lead a good fashion than to follow a bad one?”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

tags: horses

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#20

“...she felt in her mind the consciousness that she was entitled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary despotism of religious prejudice permitted her to aspire to.”
― Walter Scott

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#21

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

tags: antoine-de-saint-exupery

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#22

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: self-exploration

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#23

“I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin”
― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

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#24

“Showing a photograph of a brain lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this “explains” samadhi, is like showing a picture of a tree lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this “explains” Christmas.”
― Lou Marinoff, Therapy for the Sane: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life

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#25

“Mize knew that the outcome of today’s hearing was all about politics. Lady Justice wasn’t blind. She was wearing see-no-evil lenses and had been cursed with a more troubling disability—muteness. There existed no doubt in his mind that political machinations had suffocated legal precedent on this day.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: drama, fiction, investigate, mystery, page-turner, plot-driven, puppeteering, survival, thriller, treachery

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#26

“Two simple words that will take you far in life: thank you. Don’t underestimate their power.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: community, faith, fulfilling, insightful, life, live, perseverance, purposeful, transplant, unique-perspective

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#27

“Discrediting WE Charity may have been the short-term goal of some politicians and journalists, but the long-term consequences will be a devasting loss for our children and those in the developing world. That is a tragedy.”
― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity

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#28

“Improving your tone essentially requires you to work on your communication skills.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: civil-disclosure, divides, houghtful, inspiring, personal, practical-tools, reflections, respectful, social-commentary

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#29

“What’s your business, Sir?”
“Jus’ call me Gord. Labour relations.”
“What’s that?”
“I’m a broker, kid. Middlemen need workers an’ wagons t’ bring
their recyclings south. I’m the one who supplies ‘em.”
“Where are they now?”
“Over there, you can just see the wagons under the tubes. The
men sleep under ‘em.”
“They’re shackled.”
“Yup.”
“Prisoners?”
“Nope. Indentured labour.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: adventure, destruction, drama, dramatic, dystopian, fantasy, fiction-action, human-evolution, science-fiction

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#30

“Mary Miracle would always recall with clarity the moment she decided to kill her husband.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: crime, drama, exciting, gripping, lies, romance, suspense, thrilling, who-dun-it

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