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#1

“King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting my people a partial freedom which is always subject to the approval of any laws we make by the Japanese Government in Tokyo!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, inspiring, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty

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#2

“If I were seducing you, I’d have you spread out like fine cuisine, working my way through the menu. From appetizer… to dessert.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: action, drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, love, passion, romance, sex, suspense

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#3

“Unbeknown to her, that Louisiana background secretly intimidated my urgency to drop to a knee and produce a ring. Or maybe, I wanted to see her raise a chicken from the dead. Rumors had assured me, her tribe was capable of voodoo, spells, and such. Well, those were my on-going issues toward matrimony.
But on the other hand, Deya couldn’t wait to meet the kin folks. Yes, I knew what visions of family meant to her, butsadly, I wasn’t it. Still, I had to risk her involvement as a potential rope out of hell.

Meantime, we pressed onward to my dreaded hometown. I must have counted all the hog farms, catfish ponds, livestock yards, and chicken barns along our route. Being a country boy, I knew the smells, stinks, and how to identify them all. Yet dealing with my relatives and the death of Aunt Kathy were different kinds of shit to take in.”
― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift

tags: beleifs, family, hell, hopeful, pray, spirits, suspense, thriller-books, voodoo, witchcraft

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#4

“A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
― 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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#5

“Enraged, Marco paced back and forth, gripping the newspaper in his fist. What do these animals hope to accomplish with senseless violence? We have enough suffering on this island. Do we have to kill each other, too?”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: class-disparity, cultural-fiction, feminism-in-history, inner-turmoil, lush, perseverance, political-struggle, real-estate, social-mobility, thought-provoking

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#6

“Don’t make assumptions, Detective Tobin. Don’t they teach you that in detective school?”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

tags: contemporary-fiction, female-protagonist, house-sitting, love-and-danger, murder-investigation, page-turner, personal-growth, resilience, second-chances, small-town-secrets

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#7

“It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#8

“Serving” is assisting your fellow man, the how-to, practical way to thrust your life into the spiritual wall to make the tunnel bigger. Will God suddenly appear? Does washing stacks of pots and pans bring salvation?
Can pulling weeds reclaim your brain? Will mopping the floor make you equal to the richest of men?”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: belief, empathy, equality, god, inner-love, love, self-healing, spiritual, thinking, thought-provoking

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#9

“Water continued to explain about the life of the tree. “Trees can be as big below the ground as they are above it. And there are mother trees in the forests—these are the oldest trees. They have the most connections with the other trees. Trees communicate with each other and look after the young trees by sending them nutrients through their roots.”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: compassion, eco-friendly, exploring-connections, exploring-nature, holistic-lessons, interactive-learning, kindness, natural-vibrations, parent-child-bonding, universal-connection

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#10

“Far off, I heard a rumble. A land slip perhaps. Or maybe tank fire from thirty miles away. I figured the sounds of war would carry this far into the desert mountains.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

tags: antihero, captivating, covert-operations, espionage-thriller, hidden-motives, historical-intrigue, international-crime, middle-eastern-setting, relentless, unraveling-mystery

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#11

“I flipped quickly through the pages as I waited—made my family a jerky, imperfect movie. It struck me that my mother had compiled mostly a book of her father, Thomas, and me. Others make appearances: Ray, Dessa, the Anthonys from across the street, the Tusia sisters from next door. But my grandfather, my brother, and I are the stars of my mother’s book. Ma herself, camera-shy and self-conscious about her cleft lip, appears only twice in the family album. In the first picture, she’s one of a line of dour-faced schoolchildren posed on the front step of St. Mary of Jesus Christ Grammar School. (A couple of years ago, the parish sold that dilapidated old schoolhouse to a developer from Massachusetts who converted it into apartments.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

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#12

“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”
― Charles Dickens , A Tale of Two Cities

tags: french-revolution

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#13

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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#14

“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: change, depression, hardship, misery

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#15

“In spring 1907, a Regulation for Women’s Education was decreed, which made it official that women should receive education.”
― Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

tags: chinese-reformation

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#16

“أهم قرار تتخذه هو أن تكون ذا مزاج رائع”
― فولتير

tags: inspirational

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