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#1

“Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something to report on, but we have more than enough problems out there without manufacturing problems.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationship

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#2

“What (we) wanted more than anything was to be close to each other, washing the dirt and dust from each other’s faces after our train chases, brushing the tangles out of our hair, sharing advice about boys and basketball, learning how to curse, grabbing a bottle of Coca-Cola and a Moon Pie from Mr. Shotts’ grocery store after school, dipping in a pond during the seven steamy months of the year.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

tags: coming-of-age, conversational, fall, humanity, illuminate, men, moral-failures, powerful, rise, surreal

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#3

“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
― 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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#4

“She said she was a clairvoyant. She saw dead people. She saw things even before she was born.”
― Eli Wilde, Cruel

tags: clairvoyance, dead-people

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#5

“I realized he was on the island when I found this matchbook.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

tags: action, diplomat, drama, fast-paced, fiction, mystery, suspicion, thriller, thriller-novel

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#6

“The United States had complete control of the air over all of Vietnam, and could presumably deliver a decisive blow at will. The failure to do so was blamed on the very notion of “limited war.” America was fighting with one hand—or so the story went.”
― Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

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#7

“It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

tags: scared, smart

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#8

“The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.”
― Sharon Creech, The Wanderer

tags: sea

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#9

“Turning off all the lights, I went into the bathroom and closed the door. I stood in the darkness before the mirror, my hand on the light switch. I forced myself to flick it on.
In the flood of light against white tile, the face and shoulders of a stranger--a fierce, bald, very dark Negro--glared at me from the glass. He in no way resembled me.
The transformation was total and shocking. I had expected to see myself disguised, but this was something else. I was imprisoned in the flesh of an utter stranger, an unsympathetic one with whom I felt no kinship. All traces of the John Griffin I had been were wiped from existence.”
― John Howard Griffin

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#10

“It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.

Do we want to contemplate his power? We see it in the immensity of the creation. Do we want to contemplate his wisdom? We see it in the unchangeable order by which the incomprehensible Whole is governed. Do we want to contemplate his munificence? We see it in the abundance with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy? We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand might make, but the scripture called the Creation.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: atheism, deism, science

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#11

“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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#12

“From the start, I told you! We should’a just handled this ourselves. You should’ve handled it the way my daddy would’ve.” She paused, looking at Tom, and lowered her voice, “Just like Crockett.”
― J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior

tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, gripping, intense, lies, retribution, thriller

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#13

“What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status in society, and have strived to transform women’s expectations in their private lives. Private dignity at home equates to dignity in the workplace and the public sphere.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships

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#14

“George looked out to the harbor where she had floated in. He looked at the beach she had washed up on. He looked around at the rubbish that had been washed up as well.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

tags: action, adventure, danger, fear, fiction-novel, insight, thriller, trauma, unpredictable

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#15

“While waiting for her accomplice to gather his equipment, Hensley couldn’t help but think ahead to her next mission. She hadn’t told him. It wasn’t a mission for which she’d volunteered, nor a mission about which she knew any details.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: determination, drama, fast-moving, fiction, history, investigate, puppeteering, survival, terror, treachery

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#16

“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, past, politics, present

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#17

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma

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#18

“I encourage readers recovering from a kidney transplant to heed the advice of their medical practitioners.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: chronic-illness, covid, dialysis, good-health, grief, inspiring, personal, wellbeing

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#19

“Sometimes they converge.
The field is fabricated to bring
two forces into conflict quickly
making them one: killing.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: adventure, ai, artificial-intelligence, drama, fantasy, fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, thrilling

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#20

“estar en la iglesia me resultaba terapéutico. Experimentaba algo que jamás había experimentado en el espiritismo —el amor genuino que me demostraban los miembros de la congregación. El”
― John Ramirez, FUERA DEL CALDERO DEL DIABLO

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#21

“Locating the village elders, he said to them, “I think that we are in for a bad time. The American Sky Soldiers are coming by helicopter and the usual things the Americans do of air strikes by fighter-bombers and by B52 large bombers is starting at Long Phuoc! I fear the worst!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, educational, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#22

“smoochers....Blob after blob after blob...squirming in the dark is a clever night's work....When they're all being shoved by body chemicals through a mindless mechanical process, like so many pairs of stuck-together frogs.”
― Herman Wouk

tags: romance

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#23

“Cái cô đơn nhất trong khắp thế gian là một tâm hồn đang chuẩn bị sẵn sàng cho chuyến đi xa xôi, bí ẩn của mình.”
― O Henry

tags: chiếc-lá-cuối-cùng

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#24

“Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point “in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.”
― Richard Matheson, Somewhere In Time

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#25

“A este hecho se le han buscado varias explicaciones pero por mi parte no propongo sino tres, que no se excluyen unas a otras. Primera: el suicidio es cosa humana y no de animales, es decir, es un acto meditado, una elección no instintiva, no natural; y en el Lager había pocas ocasiones de elegir, se vivía precisamente como los animales domesticados, que a veces se dejan morir pero que no se matan. Segunda: «había otras cosas en que pensar», como suele decirse. La jornada estaba completa: había que pensar en satisfacer el hambre, en sustraerse de algún modo al cansancio y al frío, en evitar los golpes; precisamente por la inminencia constante de la muerte faltaba tiempo para pensar en la muerte. La rudeza de la verdad resplandece en la anotación de Svevo”
― Primo Levi, Trilogía de Auschwitz

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#26

“You don’t share me. You own me.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

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#27

“She was aware of how much she was degrading herself. Yet at the same time, she had no motivation to care.”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

tags: action, adventure-fantasy, battle, dark-fantasy, elven-divinity, forces-of-evil, guardian, higher-power, kingdom, warrior-prince

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#28

“Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: dark, death, drama, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, paranormal, revenge, suspense, thriller

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#29

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: philosophical-musings, reflection

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#30

“Edward reached out with his arms and embraced her, his heart filled with a mix of sadness and hope. He desperately wanted to believe her promise and hold on to her vow that they would be reunited soon. Still, young Edward’s life had been so full of disappointment that it was hard for him to believe his unfortunate circumstances might soon be ending. He clung to her, wishing she would never let him go.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

tags: child-labour, cruelty, determination, heart-over-head, historical-fiction, mystery, orphan, strength, trapped, truth

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