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#1

“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

tags: american-history, diplomacy, european-history, history, international, literary, politics, speeches, women-in-politics

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#2

“What was it about the holidays that made your whole life feel out of control?”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Christmas in Smithville

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#3

“Life is full of twists, turns, hiccups and brick walls. A delay in pursuing your purpose allows you to regroup, recharge and launch again. Treat it as a pause and not an end to capturing your dreams.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: happiness, inspiring, kindness, life-and-living, life-lesson, motivating, optimism, positive, positive-attitude

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#4

“When we see a rock wall blocking our way, God sees a barrier to guard us someday.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, glory, joy, kids-reading, rhyming, truth, values, young-readers

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#5

“Taking a deep breath, I am about to shout for Glenna when Moira says, No need to yell. Just use the k’bug, dear. Oh. That’s better than alerting the whole monastery.”
― S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada

tags: ancient-traditions, culture, diversity, drama, intrigue, lies, magic, rilogy, traditions, truth

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#6

“Sure as hell doesn’t seem that Williams’ study and findings were general. This man talked from fact. I bet this is the scientist and study they want.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: cia, cic, conditioned, deployment, military-intelligence, russia, soldiers, spies, spy

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#7

“After March in 1945, the Japanese felt threatened by possibility of the people of Indochina rising against them. Therefore, they stated:
“We of the Imperial Japanese Army have only invaded other Asian countries in order to remove the European and American white man from Asia! Stick with us Japanese and together we shall make Asians great while we kick the whites out of the entire region!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: army, battles, death, determination, family, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, front-line, pilots, soldiers

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#8

“What Foods Create Blood Glucose?
Blood glucose is not created just by sweets—it’s created by all foods. Proteins create glucose, fats create glucose, vegetables create glucose, fruits create glucose, fruit juices create glucose, starchy foods create glucose, and of course, sweets create glucose. So the key to losing weight is to consume less of the foods (including drinks) that create large amounts of glucose and replace them with foods and beverages that create smaller amounts of glucose and go into the bloodstream more slowly.”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

tags: diet-book, free-foods, health-coach, healthy-eating, live-life, live-longer, recipes, sugar-control, weight-loss, weight-management

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#9

“Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
― 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

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#10

“It was our understanding that we were to be instructing them in the ways of the civilized world, not being made beasts of burden, but, as Helen Flight has pointed out, of what use are table manners to those without tables.”
― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

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#11

“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5,6”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

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#12

“In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#13

“Parler derrière le dos des autres est le ventilateur du couer.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

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#14

“I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually true.... There may be people who wish to live their lives under cradle-to-grave divine supervision, a permanent surveillance and monitoring. But I cannot imagine anything more horrible or grotesque.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, religion

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#15

“My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.”
― Malcom X

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#16

“Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes.  “No, I lived there for a while.”  “Did you enjoy your stay?” “Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.” “Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.” “You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the population.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction, mystery, thriller

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#17

“If energy never died, I now knew that love didn’t either; it could only be transformed.”
― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

tags: dark, fantasy, horror, intrigue, paranormal, romance, thriller, vampire, vampire-romance

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#18

“The Minister of Army answered, “Bob, I thought that you would have been an astute and clever enough a politician to think of this yourself, but seeing how you have asked me, I suggest that you wait until eight in the night on Thursday 29/April/1965 to announce that Australia will send the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment to fight in South Vietnam. By you waiting until the evening of 29/April/1965 to announce this in Parliament, the labour opposition leader of Arthur Caldwell and his deputy leader of Gough Whitlam should be absent, as will be most of the entire parliament, because the following day is the beginning of a long week-
end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount

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#19

“Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something to report on, but we have more than enough problems out there without manufacturing problems.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationship

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#20

“Their war maneuvers excluded shame.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

tags: conspiracy, crime, desire, espionage, favorites, fiction, identity, military, success, thriller

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#21

“But sir…’
     ‘Don’t worry I said I’ll do it,’ snapped the President.
     ‘But sir there’s just one other thing.’
     The President held the club in his hands like a seasoned baseball star. He glanced over at the Phlegm-O-Matic resting in the legionnaire’s rusted hand. ‘What?’
     ‘That protocol doesn’t include you.’
     The President’s shoulders sank and the air left his lungs in a rush. The legionnaire turned and aimed the gun at him.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: artificial-intelligence, future, inventions, laugh-out-loud, past, present, science, science-adventure, secret, technology

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#22

“How can knowing something be sinful?”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

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#23

“The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed."
"That is what is called learning the truth.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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#24

“But the thing that . . . that I touched . . . " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know," said Herrick.”
― Margery Williams

tags: horror, mystery, supernatural

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#25

“Put out my eyes, and I can see you still;
slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet;
and without any feet can go to you;
and tongueless, I can conjure you at will.
Break off my arms, I shall take hold of you
and grasp you with my heart as with a hand;
arrest my heart, my brain will beat as true;
and if you set this brain of mine afire,
upon my blood I then will carry you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems from the Book of Hours

tags: faith, god, love, memory

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