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    Nancy O'Meara
    “The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.”
    ― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions
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    Barry Kirwan
    “next”
    ― Barry Kirwan, Eden's Trial
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    “Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on the screen, as Johnny Weissmuller arced through a canopy of trees boldly screaming his signature jungle call.”
    ― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
    tags: action, conflict, death, discovery, documented, drama, loyalty, nazis, politics, unity
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    Author Harold Phifer
    “There was nothing ordinary about Ossie May. She was tall, sexy, smart, and pretty. Her looks and personality were her drawing cards. The flip side was her temperament. She was beauty and rage sandwiched together, and she must have invented cussing. She would unload swear word after swear word in rapid succession. There had to be a law against such offensive language.”
    ― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
    tags: dysfunctional-families, family, family-humour, inspirational, inspiring, struggle, touching, truth
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    John Irving
    “We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”
    ― John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River
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    Gregory Maguire
    “To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or defer it.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “We are constantly invited to be what we are.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    “I have a suspicion - and hear me out, 'cause this is a rough one - I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    “Okay then, the blood has dried into the shirt so as I cut it away, it may sting some as I pull it away. Can you be brave for me?”
    ― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach
    tags: 12-year-old-perspective, bittersweet, coming-of-age, family-dynamics, hope, humor, nostalgic, rural-landscapes, self-discovery, suburban-life
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    Sara Pascoe
    “With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
    ― Sara Pascoe
    tags: sara-pascoe, women-s-humor
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    “She felt love, like the love that she had always known existed behind every fallen autumn leaf, behind the gurgling of springs, and behind the kisses of her parents.”
    ― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
    tags: complex-relationships, destiny, forest-homes, heroism, hope, magical-adventure, pixie-city, suspenseful, vivid, young-heroes
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
    ― 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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    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: academic, bias, chemistry, emotional-intelligence, grounded, power-balance, relationship, research, teamwork, workplace-norms
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  • #15
    “When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
    ― Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates
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    Donna Tartt
    “That’s the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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    James Herriot
    “But I’m having the agony. I’ve been dreading this happening for so long. I haven’t been able to sleep for thinking about it. It seems so cruel and unjust for this to strike a helpless animal—a little creature who’s never done anybody any harm.”
    ― James Herriot, All Things Wise and Wonderful
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Sometimes it’s easier to live with your own anxieties if you know that no one else is happy either.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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