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  • #1
    “On the plane leaving Africa, I had a vision of Mama Africa, a powerful and proud African woman carrying the abundant fruits of Africa in a basket. She accompanied me as I gazed down on the continent I was leaving. She would be with me in my new country, Mama Africa assured me, and I would forever be a child of Africa.”
    Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

  • #2
    C.A. Knutsen
    “Roughly translated into English I am Galactic Exploration and Research Intelligence number twenty-seven.” “The first letter of those words comes out G.E.R.I., so I’ll call you GERI if that’s okay.”
    C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

  • #3
    Max Nowaz
    “It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet
up to this point.
“Indeed. How much will it cost?” asked Brown
“About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,” said Demba. “A modest investment for
a man of your means.”
“Indeed,” said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike
him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted.
“We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,” said Ito. “Show you the place itself.”
“Indeed,” said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen
into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in.
Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #4
    C. Toni Graham
    “Seek and embrace peace. We all deserve a tranquil existence.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #5
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #6
    “inclusion + engagement = execution muscle”
    Susan Scott, Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst "Best" Practices of Business Today

  • #7
    Christian Warren Freed
    “She slammed an angry fist into the light metal field table. A stack of datapads bounced and fell to the ground. “Damn it! Find me legitimate targets so I can kill them!”
    Christian Warren Freed, The Lazarus Men

  • #8
    Christopher Hitchens
    “The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when it came to the principle of the French revolution, but Burke did and said magnificent things when it came to Ireland, India and America. One of them was in some ways a revolutionary conservative and the other was a conservative revolutionary. It's important to try and contain multitudes. One of my influences was Dr Israel Shahak, a tremendously brave Israeli humanist who had no faith in collectivist change but took a Spinozist line on the importance of individuals. Gore Vidal's admirers, of whom I used to be one and to some extent remain one, hardly notice that his essential critique of America is based on Lindbergh and 'America First'—the most conservative position available. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

  • #9
    William Golding
    “The way towards simplicity is through outrage.”
    William Golding, Darkness Visible

  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #11
    Tim LaHaye
    “I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”’ “I”
    Tim LaHaye, Apollyon

  • #12
    Ellen Raskin
    “I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.”
    Ellen Raskin

  • #13
    Walter Farley
    “I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.”
    Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

  • #14
    “From the vaulted arches several stories above us, entire, mature trees were growing, reaching leafy boughs down into the open air between the floor and ceiling. There was a full glade growing up there, oak, birch, maple, and elm, like someone had carved out a few acres of the park and fixed it there upside down.”
    Edward Williams

  • #15
    “The guard looked down at the scarlet bloodstains blooming on his chest. He appeared to think of something that he needed to say, but as his lips began to form the words, his knees gave up the strain of supporting his ruined bulk. He collapsed to the floor, his throat issuing a final sound like a bubbling casserole.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

  • #16
    “Pilots used to fly planes manually, but now they operate a dashboard with the help of computers. This has made flying safer and improved the industry.
    Healthcare can benefit from the same type of approach, with physicians practicing medicine with the help of data, dashboards, and AI. This will improve
    the quality of care they provide and make their jobs easier and more efficient”
    Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

  • #17
    Therisa Peimer
    “A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied with a smirk.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #18
    Sara Pascoe
    “But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
    Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
    Sara Pascoe

  • #19
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “He turned and smiled resolvedly at her.  He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with what she considered to be the silly confines of love or marriage.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #20
    William Faulkner
    “You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.”
    William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust
    tags: hope

  • #21
    Yann Martel
    “These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #22
    Virgil
    “All things by nature are ready to get worse”
    Virgil

  • #23
    Philip K. Dick
    “One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash.”
    Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

  • #24
    “How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?”
    Beatrice Sparks, Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

  • #25
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #26
    “His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and gulped. A vision had appeared from somewhere. Was she real? She was tall, with long, glossy light-gold hair surrounding a perfectly shaped face. The front of her silk white robe was open down to a delightful cleavage where a long silver cross hung. As she walked slowly past Alec to sit at the desk, the robe parted for a fleeting glimpse of her leg. A scent of lily of the valley meandered over him. A hand with long graceful fingers indicated for him to sit again in his chair. She was real!
    She was, without doubt, the most beautiful woman Alec had ever seen.”
    Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

  • #27
    Margarita Barresi
    “Marco had examined every inch of Guayanés Beach, where coconut palms that once grew along the shore in majestic rows lay crisscrossed in the sand like scattered pencils.”
    Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

  • #28
    “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #29
    “Nothing can invade our being without our permission. It is energetically impossible. We can be confident in our eternal being of infinite abilities of every kind, limited only by our imagination, emotional spectrum and personal beliefs and perspectives. These are all things that can be resolved, as our conscious awareness greatly expands in understanding and can create experiences in the spectrum of beauty, joy and love.”
    Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

  • #30
    Christine M. Knight
    “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



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