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    Richard Polak
    “What is it that inspires you? What do you love to do? What would you do for free? At the beginning of my busi-ness career, my why was to become a millionaire, not a good why! And why not? Because that is an aspiration rather than a why. Aspirations, I have found, won’t fuel me when the going gets tough. But a true “why” will.”
    ― Richard Polak
    tags: business-success, learning, self-help, self-improvement
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    Behcet Kaya
    “The events unfolded with such speed and efficiency that Anderson found himself in a state of shock. His anger with Bevin and McPhearson was quickly replaced with a sense of impending doom. An unbelievable stream of events had taken place since his training exercises in the Pacific.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base
    tags: crime-thriller, death, intrigue, murder
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    Marilyn Dalla Valle
    “A lone, dark-skinned foreigner would raise a red flag. The cops would never admit to racial profiling, but it is real in this lily-white neighborhood.”
    ― Marilyn Dalla Valle, Westwind Secrets
    tags: drama, fiction, love, secrets, strangers
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    David Sedaris
    “Have a blessed day.” This can make you feel like you’ve been sprayed against your will with God cologne.”
    ― David Sedaris, Calypso
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    Jack Kerouac
    “After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...”
    ― Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler
    tags: life, living, living-life, solitude
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you only because it's you the one I love;
    I hate you deeply, and hating you
    Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
    Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: defining-me
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    Tom Clancy
    “Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: ‘Too late.”
    ― Tom Clancy, Command Authority
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    Boris Pasternak
    “An old Russian folk song is like water held back by a dam. It looks as if it were still and were no longer flowing, but in its depths it is ceaselessly rushing through the sluice gates and the stillness of its surface is deceptive. By every possible means, by repetitions and similes, the song slows down the gradual unfolding of its theme. Then at some point it suddenly reveals itself and astounds us. That is how the song’s sorrowing spirit comes to expression. The song is an insane attempt to stop time by means of its words.”
    ― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
    tags: folk-song, music, russian, water
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    Adam Smith
    “The difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot perhaps be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.”
    ― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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    Edward Williams
    “Think about it mate – the 'Long Gun'. That's a ladyboy bar.”
    ― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
    tags: bangkok, gaslighting, intimidation, military-bases, occult, poisoning, sexual-assault, travel-memoirs
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  • #11
    “I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, noir-mystery, nvestigation, thriller
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    Robert Reid
    “8. Sylva suddenly remembered one of the teachings of Martha that she had copied out. The person who listens, gains wisdom – She who just talks only expels air. Naomi had told Sylva that she should let Martha’s words guide her. Maybe she was correct. Anyway, what harm could it do to spend a few moments listening to the huntsman?”
    ― Robert Reid, The Empress
    tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fantasy
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “Time and space are incalculable, there measure is infinite. The formulas that explicate their workings, have all but been explained away. But there is one thing that remains, and always will.
    ‘The occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause.’
    Chance.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Inara
    tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, compelling, deep, future, humanity, sci-fi, science-fiction, suspense, thriller
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    Paul A. Barra
    “His blazing red filly switched leads and spurted forward, flattening out and making up ground. Francine left the other horses behind and lunged after Miss Smith. Was there enough track left for her to catch the leader?”
    ― Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller
    tags: assassination, crime, deception, fear, lies, mission, russia, secrets, suspense, vodka
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    “Fair enough, that's what most people look for to begin with, but money can be a sliding scale, the more you have, the more you want, the more you need,' McBlane said as he sharpened the ash on the tip of his cigar into a point against the rim of the ashtray. It gave him the appearance of wielding a dagger as he gestured with his cigar holding hand.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: visual-moments
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “Will turned over the last words for a long time. Then he thought about the flashing message-light up in the kitchen.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: crime, dramatic, emotionally-charged, family-life, home, literary-fiction, loneliness-or-solitude, reality, secrets, unpredictable
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    A.S. Byatt
    “Ash liked his characters at or over the edge of madness, constructing systems of belief and survival from the fragments of experience available to them.”
    ― A.S. Byatt, Possession
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    “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

    (John 11:25-26)”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: belief, charles-dickens, ever-after, everlasting-life, faith, paradise, resurrection, sydney-carton, tale-of-two-cities
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. ”
    ― Scott Westerfeld
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: animal-cruelty, carnivore, carnivores, diet, health, meat, slaughter
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Even from the most rigorous scientific perspective, unselfishness and concern for others are not only in our own interests but also, in a sense, innate to out biological nature.

    In Indian usage, "secular", far from implying antagonism toward religion or toward people of faith, actually implies a profound respect for and tolerance toward all religions.

    "honor another's religion, for doing so strengthens both one's own and that of the other.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV, Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
    tags: religion
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