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#1

“We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: ancient-greece, conflict, drama, educational, greek-gods, iction, insightful, love-story, romance, spartans

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#2

“Tell me, son, what do you seek?”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

tags: fathers-and-sons, male-thinking, seekers, spiritual-journey-quotes

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#3

“Do you still distrust me?”
“No. Take your necklace with you so you can think of me when I’m not there.” Brown brought the necklace over to her and put it on her neck. “I think it rather suits me,” she laughed and left. Brown didn’t understand what had made him insist she wear the necklace. Maybe it was the readiness with which she had made love, or her frequent disappearances lately, he was just curious. There was no harm in checking, before he parted with the money. Later that evening, before going to sleep he decided to have a look at her location and he was in for a surprise. She had not left Central City at all. In fact she was at the same friend’s address as she had been the last time.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-thriller, crime, dark-humor, fast-paced, mystery, thriller

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#4

“An algorithm that expedites care to a stroke patient in a chaotic emergency room (ER) has a good chance of adoption. An algorithm that reads a routine scan and provides some quantification of what the physicians can already estimate won’t be in as much demand. There are good reasons for algorithms to parse patient records to look for signs of rare diseases, but there are fewer good reasons for using them to evaluate clinical symptoms. It’s cool that AI tools can make diagnoses from scratch, but for most clinical encounters doctors are already pretty good at it.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: brain, care-givers, covid-19, evaluations, experiences, humans, motivation, physicians, scans, treatment

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#5

“She could see the headlines now.

‘Spinster dies alone in her condo. No one discovered her corpse for three days.’

She had been so preoccupied with work, that she’d neglected to do the grocery shopping and was now regretting it.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: compelling, contemporary-romance, enemies-to-lovers, fun, literary-fiction, opposites-attract, rom-com, romance-literature, small-town-romance, suspense

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#6

“Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: children-s, fantasy, occult, paranormal, supernatural, teenagers, urban, ya-paranormal, young-adult

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#7

“And he never asked you about it?”
“No, he never asked. If he had, I’m still not sure I would have told him.”
“Told him what?”
“That is was his baby.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: fiction-novel, mystery-suspense, noir-fiction

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#8

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. ”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#9

“have. He really PURSUED me, in a gentlemanly way, showing”
― Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance

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#10

“A magical thought, inspired by the books he had read. But magic . . . surely there was a little magic in the world. The people who denied the existence of magic, they were the ones that it went badly for.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let The Right One In

tags: faith, magic

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#11

“Както и да е, вас ви интересува влиянието на книгите върху живота ми, а както вече споменах, книгата е само една. „Писма“ на Сенека. Знаете ли кой е ток? Римски философ, който пише писма до въображаеми приятели и ги поучава как да се държат. Сигурно ви звучи отегчително, но не е. Писмата му са страшно духовити, а според мен със смях човек се учи по-добре.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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#12

“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip

tags: imagination, writer

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#13

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: advice, epigram, humor

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#14

“The created a displacement devise that separated solids into fragmented molecules.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: courage, curiosity, engrossing, exploration, hope, mortality, plots, quantum, sorrow, survival

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#15

“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

tags: betrayal, church-murder, criminal-masterminds, detective-fiction, emotional-complexity, firsthand-accounts, love-and-loss, melancholy, refugees, symbolism

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#16

“The Geneva peace accords said that it recognized the nationality and fundamental rights of the Vietnamese people including their sovereignty, their territory and unity. Due to the Geneva Conference allowing the imperialist combined forces of the Franco-USA coalition, on the one hand to hold South Vietnam under the 17th parallel and allowing the National resistance by the People of Vietnam to hold the north on the other, it stopped the Vietnamese from completely liberating their country. (Vein, 2009)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war

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#17

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#18

“My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

tags: contradiction, optimism, perspective, reality, skepticism

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#19

“Life will find a way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

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#20

“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: compulsive-liar, compulsive-lying, crazy-bitch, ego, egotistical, fantasy, liar, lie, lies, out-of-touch-with-reality, pretending, reality, self-righteous, smile, smiling, superiority-complex, vain, vainity, wannabe, wannabewriter, writer, writing

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#21

“I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

tags: foolishness, heartbreak, unworthiness, weakness

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#22

“But that isn’t the only way life is. A part of the time, it’s mighty good. And a man can’t afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad…. You understand?”
― Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

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