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#1

“Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this city… if that.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: army, battles, danger, destruction, life, secrets, spies, unrest, war

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#2

“Your Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, find-god, hope, light, prayer, self-awareness, self-love

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#3

“What is Insulin?
Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, thighs, belly—and generally every place you don’t want it to be. ”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

tags: coach, glucose-control, guidance, learning, overweight, teaching, understanding, weight-control, weight-management

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#4

“Sofia couldn’t afford to live on faith any longer. It ended up hurting too much. ”
― Douglas Weissman , Life Between Seconds

tags: depression, family, fiction, happiness, hardship, loss, memories, pain, sadness

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#5

“When we see a door closed very tight, God sees a window right in our sight.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: be-happy, believe, change, courage, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, positive, young-readers

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#6

“Here I am, my genome, my signature, an encapsulation of myself, everything you need to know about me. If I match, I can be found.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, intense, legal, legal-thrille, suspense

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#7

“When the bell of my flat rings at four o’clock in the afternoon, I don’t expect a policeman to be standing outside. “Sorry to disturb you sir,” he says. “Detective sergeant McCorquodale. It’s about your mother.” Detective sergeant McCorquodale is an enormous lighthouse of a man with the untroubled skin of a baby and not a trace of facial hair; a sort of man-boy who’s overdosed on growth hormones.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: calcutta, culture, dundee, family, fiction, fiction-writing, historical, human-history, india, period-drama

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#8

“Feed the soil, not your plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: gardening, harvest, harvesting, healthy-vegetable, herb-gardening, organic, sustainable, vegetable-garden

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#9

“My father was incredibly indecisive. As an example, take his wedding day. He couldn't decide where to sit in the getaway car, decide the fact he was supposed to be driving.”
― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

tags: bad-behaviour, behaviour, entertainment, fast-paced, fiction, hilarious, media-driven, social-media, society, witty

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#10

“The Minister of Army answered, “Bob, I thought that you would have been an astute and clever enough a politician to think of this yourself, but seeing how you have asked me, I suggest that you wait until eight in the night on Thursday 29/April/1965 to announce that Australia will send the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment to fight in South Vietnam. By you waiting until the evening of 29/April/1965 to announce this in Parliament, the labour opposition leader of Arthur Caldwell and his deputy leader of Gough Whitlam should be absent, as will be most of the entire parliament, because the following day is the beginning of a long week-
end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount

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#11

“Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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#12

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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#13

“a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye

tags: suicide

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#14

“Each bringing a hoof down hard on the floor, Asttriane and Nell set in motion a series of chains...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique

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#15

“And it comes to me that the echoes of my own life will likely die away in that way thunder does. But this life, what a shining thing-it is enough.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

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#16

“It seemed a shame that Aunt Jessie and Uncle Nate spent so much time chasing the dead. And yet, I could see how they were trying so hard to keep the dead alive,”
― Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird: An ALA Best Book and Touching Coming-of-Age Story About Loss and Self-Discovery for Kids

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#17

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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#18

“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: ancient-athens, fiction, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, philosophical

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#19

“Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: mario-puzo, the-godfather

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#20

“That’s why the question what men are good for continues to be debated within our societies, as well as between anthropologists”
― Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality

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#21

“be nicer to you than she is to some other kid, then that’s not your fault. That’s the teacher’s fault. Because a teacher’s not supposed to be nicer to one kid than she is to another, right?”
― Andrew Clements, Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet

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#22

“It's really very simple. If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman she is beautiful, you offer her great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem... What's love, darling, if it's not self-sacrifice?”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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#23

“when he heard you were at finishing school, he was indignant. He demanded to know why you needed to be finished since there was nothing wrong with you to start with. I couldn’t answer him because I’d like to ask that father of yours the same question.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

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