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    Lou Marinoff
    “if you just need to talk to someone about your circumstances in order to make sense of them, or in order to discern their meaning, purpose and value in your life, then a philosopher may be the right helper for you.”
    ― Lou Marinoff, Therapy for the Sane: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life
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    Milan Kordestani
    “When it comes to meditation, one minute is better than zero. Something is an improvement from nothing.”
    ― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
    tags: challenging, communication, explore, failures, identity, personal-growth, reflection, societal-expectations, successes
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    Chad Boudreaux
    “True to course, he didn’t know the nature of the assignment; true to course, he didn’t ask. That was probably for the best. Preparation for the Iranian hostage extraction had been difficult, and its execution life-threatening, but that was child’s play compared to what was coming.”
    ― Chad Boudreaux
    tags: action, clandestine, counterterrorism, drama, edge-of-your-seat, heart-pounding, humour, legal, suspense, target
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    Anne Michaud
    “The Profumo Affair in 1963 profoundly altered British society. It gave lie to the belief that those born into the ruling class were inherently superior and destined to lead.”
    ― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, inspiring, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty
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    “Conquering your deliverance means maintaining the opportunity of spiritual freedom that our Lord Jesus Christ paid for in full.”
    ― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom
    tags: biblical, christ, christian, christian-spiritual-growth, christianity, deliverance-from-evil, faith-in-god, spiritual, spiritual-freedom, spiritual-welfare
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    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    Steven Decker
    “You must realize, Dani, that you cannot go back to your time, no matter if we save your friends or not.”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel
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    Sara Gruen
    “Age is a terrible thief. Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse. Metastatic,”
    ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
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    Veronica Roth
    “Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’
    ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. ‘And knife-throwing just came up somehow.’
    ‘As it so often does,’ I say, a small smile inching across my face.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    tags: distraction, meditation, quiet
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    Simon W. Clark
    “She adjusted her body weight and caught his eyes, her gaze shiny and with a tinge of sadness. “My grandmother told me once that the world is filled with ghosts. The longer we live the more ghosts will haunt us.” She paused glancing at her palms. “But they’re here to remind us we are alive. That our hearts beat, blood runs through our veins, we breath air into our lungs.”
    ― Simon W. Clark, The Russian Ink
    tags: binds-us-together, emotions-and-attitude, faith-in-each-other, fiction, keeps-us-strong, protection, spy-thriller
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    “Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place... many men say that there is written upon his tomb this verse: Hic jacet Arthurus, Rex quondam, Rexque futurus.

    Here lies Arthur, King that was, King that will be.”
    ― Thomas Malory
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communication
explore
failures
identity
personal-growth
reflection
societal-expectations
successes
action
clandestine
counterterrorism
drama
edge-of-your-seat
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