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    Sybrina Durant
    “While not all elements in the Periodic Table are represented by letters of the alphabet, some in this book (Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Metal Horn Unicorns), are introduced by alternate designations. For instance, Tungsten is also known as Wolfram so “W” is used as the entry for that alphabetical letter in this book. The letter “W” is also used as the atomic symbol for Tungsten in all periodic tables.”
    ― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of The Periodic Table: Presented Alphabetically by The Metal Horn Unicorns
    tags: animals, children-s-learning, children-s-science, earth-science, educational, learning, mythical, mythical-stories, science-book, unicorns
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    Eli Wilde
    “Maybe the flies knew we were leaving. Maybe they were happy for us.”
    ― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons
    tags: action, ai, danger, drama, dystopian, friendship, graphic, horror, love, romance
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  • #3
    Patrick G. Cox
    “On the other side of the room, Bast cursed her luck. Damn. She couldn’t wait now. It took time to set up a switch like this. She would have to take the second option. A pity, the Rowanberg woman was the right size physically, and the facial adjustment would not be difficult, nor the hair, and she was one of the targets on her list. Option Two was slightly taller, but she would have to do.”
    ― Patrick G Cox, First into the Fray
    tags: conspiracies, conspire, domination, exciting, exploration, fast-paced, fear, plots, sci-fi, treachery
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    Karen Hinton
    “…I was finding that reporting the news wasn't enough. I wanted to be more than just a paid observer. I wanted to be in the fight. I got my chance.”
    ― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
    tags: biography, coming-of-age, conversational, fall, glass-ceiling, illuminate, karen-hinton, moral-failures, rise, surreal
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  • #5
    “I have had the best day ever more times that I can remember. So yes,
    I believe I am ready to die if that is what is needed to live as I want to.”
    ― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever
    tags: africa, awareness, explore, fascination, insight, memoir, nature, raw, reflective, wild
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  • #6
    Max Nowaz
    “I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives
though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?”
“You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you
think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be
you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.”
“You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.
He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used
the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, favourite-books, suspense, thriller, thriller-writing
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    Ajay Agrawal
    “During the shopping process, Amazon’s AI offers suggestions of items that it predicts you will want to buy. The AI does a reasonable job. However, it is far from perfect. In our case, the AI accurately predicts what we want to buy about 5 percent of the time. We actually purchase about one of every twenty items it recommends. Considering the millions of items on offer, that’s not bad!”
    ― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
    tags: amazon, artificial-intelligence, shopping
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  • #8
    Jana Petken
    “unlike the old Inquisition, an inquisitor didn’t have to be a member of the clergy to hold office.”
    ― Jana Petken, The Errant Flock
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  • #9
    “لَتُبْلَوُنَّ فِي أَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنفُسِكُمْ وَلَتَسْمَعُنَّ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُواْ أَذًى كَثِيراً وَإِن تَصْبِرُواْ وَتَتَّقُواْ فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ مِنْ عَزْمِ الأُمُورِ”
    ― الله عز وجل, القرآن الكريم
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  • #10
    Robyn Arianrhod
    “I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
    ― Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²
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    John Gunther
    “Talkativeness and charm are both, as is well-known, characteristics somewhat feminine; and they often add up to guile. Certainly there was a strong streak of the female in Roosevelt, though this is not to disparage his essential masculinity. Confidence in his own charm led him into occasional perilous adventures—almost as a woman may be persuaded with a long series of glittering successes behind her, to think she is irresistible forever and can win anybody's scalp.”
    ― John Gunther, Roosevelt In Retrospect: A Profile in History
    tags: charm, fdr, heartlessness, roosevelt
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    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.”
    ― Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders & The Fisher of Men
    tags: culture, lawyers, lies, lying, truth
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    Helen Fielding
    “The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem. It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit. It's typical
    of men to annex a global trend and turn it into a male device to reject women to make themselves
    feel clever and us feel stupid. It's nothing but fuckwittage.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: commitment-phobic-men
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  • #14
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: love
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  • #15
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
    ― Richard Feynman
    tags: learning
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  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #17
    Jay Asher
    “And what if in the future we're at war again, or we still haven't elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are still dragging their tired old butts on stage? That would depress me way too much.”
    ― Jay Asher, The Future of Us
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  • #18
    Susan Cain
    “Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating. Introverts think before they act, digest information thoroughly, stay on task longer, give up less easily, and work more accurately.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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