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#1

“The sound of a thousand whispering ghosts surrounded her.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

tags: excitement, fiction, griping, metaphysical, romance, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, thrilling, time-travel

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#2

“She smiled again and the sun came back out. Raced backward up from the sea and lit her face. He told himself to ignore it. It wasn’t that special. Not really. He couldn’t be sure, but if his display of ignorance could make her do it again, it might be worth checking out.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, black-ops, drama, exploits, explosive, mission, murder, sex-trafficking, suspense, violent

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#3

“People who see themselves as “good” are much more likely to do “evil” things. This is because believing you are the “good guy” allows you to define your actions as good because you are the one doing them. This is why many successful cultures frame humans as intrinsically wretched. It can seem harsh to raise a child to believe deeply in their own wretchedness, but doing so helps them remember to always second-guess themselves by remembering their lesser, selfishly motivated instincts. Instincts that run counter to your morality and values have every bit as much access to your intelligence as “the better angels” of your consciousness and will use your own knowledge and wit to justify their whims. You can’t outreason your worst impulses without stacking the deck in your favor. Coming from a culture that anticipates bad impulses and steels you against them can do that. That said, cultures will no doubt develop different, less harsh mechanisms for achieving the same outcome.”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

tags: cultural-reactor, historically, humans, intergrational, morality, networks, non-cultivated-society, preserve, serving-society, though-provoking

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#4

“One calling for optimism, pragmatism, and a belief that all problems might be solved, with enough courage, determination, good”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

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#5

“But he’d done far braver things in his life—all his life—not the least of which was warming another man’s child against his skin while outside the snow poured down, and loving that child so fiercely she became his own. Your daddy.”
― Justin Cronin, The Summer Guest

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#6

“Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

tags: thom-merrilin

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#7

“The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.”
― Christine M Knight, Life Song

tags: hope, inspirtational, overcoming-adversity, triumph

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#8

“You're both mother fuckers." She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest.”
― William S. Burroughs, Junky

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#9

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, naval-battles, passion, philosophical, rebellion

845 likes

#10

“Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night.”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: danger, evil, fiction, fiction-novel, fight, insight, terror, thriller, unpredictable

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#11

“Not that he [Uzbek] rejected Mendel's proposals or rebelled against his decisions; but he exercised a subtle, passive abrasion against every active thrust: like dust in a watch, Mendel thought to himself. He's got dust in him, even though he is young. It's stupid to say the young are strong. You understand many things better at thirty than at twenty and you can also bear them better.”
― Primo Levi, If Not Now, When?

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#12

“Carpe Diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

tags: carpe-diem, positivity

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#13

“It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else. I know all these pepole are so busy because they love each other and me. We are a noisy crowd of love”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

tags: journal, thinking, writing

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#14

“Perhaps the early indicators of the end times were not birthed in these later events. But were rather the symptoms of a fundamental flaw in the human condition.”
― Rohith S. Katbamna, Down and Rising

tags: englightening

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#15

“Our society assigns us a tiny number of roles: We're producers of one thing at work, consumers of a great many things all the rest of the time, and then, once a year or so, we take on the temporary role of citizen and cast a vote. Virtually all our needs and desires we delegate to specialists of one kind or another - our meals to the food industry, our health to the medical profession, entertainment to Hollywood and the media, mental health to the therapist or the drug company, caring for nature to the environmentalist, political action to the politician, and on and on it goes. Before long it becomes hard to imagine doing much of anything for ourselves - anything, that is, except the work we do "to make a living." For everything else, we feel like we've lost the skills, or that there's someone who can do it better... it seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems.”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

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#16

“The concept and subsequent development of these JEN2 successors to the old machines, was a story in its own right. It was also one marred with frustration, hidden agendas and ultimately punctuated with a sad human tragedy.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

tags: destruction, drama, dystopian, earth, fast-paced, human-evolution, humans, machines, trilogy, war

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#17

“You too, Caesar?”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

tags: cheating, life-lessons, powerlessness, sad-but-true, tough-times, treachery

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#18

“A God-given longing must have a God-given fulfillment”
― Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

tags: bible, christian, faith, god, knowledge, love, prayers, prophetic, spiritual, teachings

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#19

“Now I gazed out of my office window. Slowly the world was changing from old-gold to the deep purple which, in the words of that dreamy song Mum was fond of humming, bathes garden walls under the twinkle of starlight.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: childhood-memories, dark, death, drama, emotional, emotions, loss, memories, thriller

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#20

“Sylva was unmoved. “I want the threat of this child permanently removed, and I will ensure my brother carries out my instructions. I need details of the family, their names and where they live in Tamin.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: action, adventure, conflict, drama, fast-paced, freedom, freedom-fighters, imagination, suspensful, weapons

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#21

“Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

tags: slavery

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#22

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

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#23

“The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindus say, ‘traveling the path of existence through thousands of births’ ... there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge; no wonder that she is able to recollect... what formerly she knew.... For inquiry and learning is reminiscence all.”-Emerson.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

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#24

“Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much I sort of knew. But the very best cooking, I discovered, is also a form of intimacy.”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

tags: community, cooking, food

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#25

“There are times in every rider's life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse....”
― Tamora Pierce, Lioness Rampant

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