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    Anne Michaud
    “For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. People learn intimacy at home, and when those early standards are set too low, a wife may second-guess her judgment about when and whether she should leave.”
    ― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
    tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships
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    Donald Montano
    “I can accept a compliment, but not from you. You scare me, Mister Sampson. You’re a stranger here on our land and we shouldn’t even concern ourselves with you. But you killed three gunmen and ignited a war.”
    ― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions
    tags: action, action-packed, drama, dramatic, historical-fiction, history, humour, romance, thrilling, violence
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    “It is one thing to pray, but another thing to watch how God answers - and He does so effortlessly.”
    ― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
    tags: adversity, faith, fulfilling, insightful, life, live, perseverance, purposeful, succeed, unique-perspective
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    Milan Kordestani
    “Focusing on and prioritizing civil discourse ensures that you don’t miss great opportunities to learn and grow with others.”
    ― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
    tags: challenging, communication, connection, empathy, experience, explore, identity, personal-growth, societal-expectations, thought
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    J.K. Franko
    “No man, no matter how smart or strong, can compete with a motivated woman.”
    ― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle
    tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, gripping, intense, lies, retribution, thriller
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: educational, entertaining, factual, indochina-war, insightful, political-dictatorship, united, unity, unrest, warring
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    Steven Decker
    “Anthropology is the science of human beings,” she said.”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “I knew I rode a rugged crest of turmoil that might crash on the rocky shore of irrational behavior.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
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    Max Nowaz
    “Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
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    “The Kielburgers are extremely accomplished and educated people who have demonstrated that they know how to build an organization, sell a vision, and court powerful people. If they had wanted to make loads of money and eat caviar on a private yacht, they could have taken lucrative private-sector jobs and done just that. It is absurd to think that they instead decided to work sixteen-hour days for twenty-five years, spend hundreds of days per year apart from their families, and invest everything they had in building a global charity—all as a means to funnel money back to themselves.”
    ― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
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    John Irving
    “Being wrong about important things is exhausting.”
    ― John Irving, The Cider House Rules
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    “He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the familiar arrow of pain. Only there is none. An oddly pleasant swell of memory, a wave of warmth flooding over him, sliding back, slowly. It is a first”
    ― Judith Guest, Ordinary People
    tags: ordinary-people
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    “They say the sea is actually black and that it merely reflects the blue sky above. So it was with me. I allowed you to admire yourself in my eyes. I provided a service. I listened and listened and listened. You stored yourself in me.”
    ― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    37 likes



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