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    Claudia Clark
    “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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    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
    tags: drama, fast-paced, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, suspense-thriller, thriller-novels
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    Ajay Agrawal
    “What will new AI technologies make so cheap? Prediction. Therefore, as economics tells us, not only are we going to start using a lot more prediction, but we are going to see it emerge in surprising new places.”
    ― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “With one hand disturbing a colony of parasitic life forms in his uncombed hair, he yawned loudly.
         ‘Morning Steve,’ Thomas said scratching his grubby face. His breath drifted across the space between them making Steve’s nose twitch involuntarily.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: adventure, artificial-intelligence, drama, dystopian, fantasy-novel, laugh-out-loud, magical, science, science-adventure
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    Karl Braungart
    “I want to follow your orders, but, I…I still work for military intelligence, and I need permission to travel out of my stationed area.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity
    tags: cia, cold-war, conflict, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series
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    Misty Mount
    “Blackness. Nothingness. It was in the shape of a giant, hazy shadow, enveloping me, swallowing me, and digesting me into the unknown. It was my biggest fear and my ultimate fate.”
    ― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl
    tags: discovery, fantasy, friendship, introvert, invisible, isolated, lonely, mystery, teen-girl, young-adult
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    Paulo Coelho
    “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: love
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    Albert Camus
    “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Anne Allen
    “They enjoyed some time on the beach before a light shower drove them back to the cottage, laughing in the rain.”
    ― Anne Allen, The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir
    tags: beach-read, coastal-escape, cottage-core, feel-good-romance, found-family, island-life, lighthearted-fiction, rainy-day-read
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    Max Nowaz
    “The ship had made the jump into hyperspace, so there were no stars or worlds to be seen, just a vortex of light and shade they were passing through.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: book-quotes, cinematic, hyperspace, sci-fi, sense-of-wonder, space-opera, space-travel, speculative-fiction
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    Todor Bombov
    “… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization  could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: civil-society, democratic, freedom, justice, liberty, monopolistic, myth, oppression, society, totalitarian-system
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    Dawn Chalker
    “Looking down over the railing, she watched an eagle soar slowly across the tree tops.”
    ― Dawn Chalker, Bear Me in Mind
    tags: atmospheric-fiction, michigan-books, mystery, nature-writing, outdoor-reads, scenic-settings, suspense, wildlife-moments
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    Brian J. Twiddy
    “He (Elliot) sort of reminds me of Rosie – or does Rosie remind me of him – whichever. They’re both dogs. I mean that nicely. I love dogs, wagging their tails when they see you, desperate to please. He’s like that.”
    ― Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing
    tags: character-insight, complex-characters, dark-humor-edge, emotional-manipulation, human-nature, observational-writing, psychological-reads, relationships-in-fiction, soft-but-sharp
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    Jean M. Auel
    “pug-mark,”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses
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    Donna Tartt
    “We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he never afraid”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
    tags: boris, i-m-dying, theo
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    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “You must strive for your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, 'Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.' Why be resigned to that? Risk walking new ground.”
    ― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
    tags: advice, life, postponing, risk
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    James Frey
    “In 1970, a superior Court judge issues an order forcing the desegregation of Los Angeles schools. The judge survives an assassination attempt and loses his job in the next election.”
    ― James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning
    tags: california-bigotry
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    Olive Ann Burns
    “Cancer teaches that life is too short to be lived like that; you take you knocks when they come, not in advance.”
    ― Olive Ann Burns, Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy Tree
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