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    Beverly Magid
    “Her whole face lights up when she smiles, Vaselik thought. She’s almost beautiful. When Leah entered the office and saw Vaselik standing there, her heart sklipped a beat like any foolish adolescent girl. Still he was her enemy...”
    ― Beverly Magid, Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle
    tags: fiction, historical, injustice, jewish, jewish-literature, russian, soviet, survival
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    Michael Parker
    “Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
    ― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
    tags: action, adventure, exciting, fear, gripping, military, navy, special-ops, thrilling, trauma
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    “It’s time for us to wake up, smell the brownies, smell the coffee, and open our spiritual eyes to see in the spirit how many monitoring systems and equipment that the kingdom of darkness is monitoring you with, day in and day out.”
    ― John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms
    tags: blessed, christian, enemy, god-given, greatness, honour, knowledge, satan, transformation, world
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    Anne Michaud
    “We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be,” Elizabeth Edwards wrote of her marriage to U.S. Sen. John Edwards. When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading became “the glue” that kept them together.”
    ― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
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    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    “It strikes me that the power or capability of a man in getting rich is in inverse proportion to his reflective powers and in direct proportion to his impudence.”
    ― Paul Sochaczewski, An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace
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    “Throughout the process, you must show gratitude to those who have helped you get to where you are.”
    ― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
    tags: anecdotes, challenge, decisions, faith, fortitude, living-with-pain, overcome, survive, triumph
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Kim
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    Gregory David Roberts
    “Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.”
    ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
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    George Eliot
    “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: determination, initiative, positivity
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    Nancy E. Turner
    “The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.”
    ― Nancy E. Turner
    tags: marriage, motherhood, wife, women
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    Dodie Smith
    “Neil is wearing a coat such as I never saw in my life before: checked back and front, but plain sleeves. Perhaps it was made out of two old coats – though I hope not, as that would show him to be poor and his brother mean. And it looked rather a noisily new coat. I expect it’s just American.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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    Lloyd C. Douglas
    “A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can’t have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.”
    ― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe
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