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#1

“Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: climate, four-seasons, growing, healthy-vegetable, helpful, how-to, plant-guide, seasons, sustainable

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#2

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, inspiring, soldiers, veterans

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#3

“Taking a deep breath, I am about to shout for Glenna when Moira says, No need to yell. Just use the k’bug, dear. Oh. That’s better than alerting the whole monastery.”
― S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada

tags: ancient-traditions, culture, diversity, drama, intrigue, lies, magic, rilogy, traditions, truth

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#4

“Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
‘So eight years are coming to a close. This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: calculation, european-history, goals, history, literary, marriage, personal-goals, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics

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#5

“I am not familiar with your personal lives, except to know you are scientists representing Iran.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: action, army, biotechnology, desire, espionage, intelligence, military, suspense, terrorist, war

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#6

“When we see grey clouds and lightning causing a storm; God shows us His rainbow in its most beautiful form.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, hope, illustrations, joy, light, prayer, self-love, young-readers

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#7

“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, blessing, education, goodness, inspiration, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

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#8

“Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
― S.W. Clemens

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#9

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
― 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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#10

“The street outside is empty, lit only by a half moon; yet factory engines beat in the background and the working day is about to begin. Maggie steps out of the tenement and suddenly the street begins to fill with women, some running, some pulling their jackets around them, some lighting pipes, some, like Maggie herself, taking a pinch of snuff. From other tenements come other women, and soon all merge into one, like a herd of cattle off to market, clopping over the stone pavements and the cobbles, lowing with last night’s news.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, heritage, historical-fiction, history, multi-layered

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#11

“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: atrocities, facts, fiction, history, lies, literature, secrets, war, wartime

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#12

“This world we live in is confusing, overwhelming and painful because he has a condition known as autism.”
― Tina Traverse, Forever, Christian

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#13

“You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

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#14

“We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them. But you cannot kiss an idea... cannot touch it or hold it.
Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man.
A man that made me remember the 5th of November. A man that I will never forget.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: graphic-novel, ideas, life, v-for-vendetta

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#15

“I guess I had this silly notion that things would be different now, since I was different.”
― Pittacus Lore, Sarah's Journal

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#16

“It is only within the moment of time represented by the twentieth century that one species - man - has acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world, and it is only within the past twenty-five years that his power has achieved such magnitude that it endangers the whole earth and its life. The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of the air, earth, rivers, and seas with dangerous, and even lethal, materials.”
― Rachel Carson

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#17

“The red hands had stopped at four-twenty-seven. He wondered what day they had stopped. As he descended the stairs with his armful of books, he wondered at just what moment the clock stopped. Had it been morning or night? Was it raining or shining? Was anyone there when it stopped?”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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#18

“Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, engaging, fiction, literature, new-adult, romance, ya, ya-litterature

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#19

“Valdin softened slightly. “Ramon you have been very well paid for this trip and I am sure that for a little extra gold the crew will not miss their shore leave. My job is done.” With that the huntsman shook Ramon’s hand and left the ship.
Robert Reid – The Son”
― Robert Reid, The Son

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#20

“Much of clinician burnout is due to spending time writing notes, placing orders, generating referrals, writing prior authorization letters, and creating patient communication. In other words, burnout is caused by physicians having to generate output! With the emergence of large language models that are used to train generative AI solutions, these use cases will be at the frontier of AI’s applications in healthcare.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: advice, advisements, care-givers, care-givers-support, experiences, health, helpful-resources, pain, success, suffering

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#21

“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: childhood-memories, fiction, happiness, hardship, home, life, loss, memories, pain, sadness

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#22

“Let your ego go . . . This is how the world is. Everyone chases love, but very few recognize it. Because to love unconditionally is the toughest task on earth. Learn to accept it.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

tags: healing, love-quotes-and-sayings, romance-quotes, self-discovery-journey, sexuality-and-spirituality, spiritual-journey-quotes, spirituality-vs-religion, tantra

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#23

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#24

“The truck looked like a beater, maybe built in the 1950's, mostly rust on the outside, but a spaceship on the inside.”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: action, adventure, animals, chosen-family, danger, fast-paced, intrigue, mystery, survival, ya-fiction

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#25

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing

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#26

“Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

tags: intimidation, power

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#27

“Geel Piet taught me to anticipate the problems likely to occur in any situation and to review the answers to them long before disaster struck. His mind was a network of emergency plans. While small boys are not natural pessimists, he nevertheless taught me the value of a routine which, when practised a thousand times, becomes an automatic reaction to a crisis.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One: The iconic novel from the multimillion-copy bestselling author

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#28

“I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869.”
― Kate Chopin

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