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#1

“I know this will be a shock as you’ve just arrived, but I have decided to resign. It seems our timing is off.”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

tags: actics, corps, drama, exciting, fiction, lies, military, secrets, syria, us-v-corps

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#2

“Pay attention. The momentum of change is building.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: awakening, don-t-give-up, empower, energy, introspective, laugh, luck, personal-development, risks, struggle

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#3

“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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#4

“The final sound of the rifle shot bounced around the lake.”
― 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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#5

“Journalism…is an unreliable aggregation of belief spaces.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

tags: attitude, dark, fast-paced, fear, gripping, journalism, love, mysterious, mystery, romance

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#6

“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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#7

“When we think our countless ideas are great, God knows His ideas are best when we wait.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, glory, hope, illustrations, joy, rhyming, truth, young-readers

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#8

“She put all of her weight against the sill of the balcony, her lovesick heart ready and willing to join the man she loved. She closed her eyes and pushed herself forward. From three stories high, she plummeted to the earth. Before hitting the ground, she swore she saw him, racing down from the heavens and lifting her up towards God’s domain where lovers never ceased to rule.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: collection, drama, fun, intrigue, perspectives, revenge, scary, short-stories, unique, varied

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#9

“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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#10

“Ivy grins. “You want me to spy on my mother? I thought you’d never ask.”
― S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada

tags: courage, curiosity, exciting, exploration, faith, fast-paced, fear, hope, plots, treachery

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#11

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: fuck-off

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#12

“of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no”
― Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution

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#13

“They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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#14

“No one who goes against her can win.”
― Euripides, Medea

tags: euripides, medea

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#15

“Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: boys, humor

1333 likes

#16

“The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.”
― Eric Schlosser

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#17

“I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dystopian, life, literary-fiction, past, sci-fi, travel, witty

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#18

“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: betrayal, dramatic, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller

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#19

“Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan

tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, futuristic, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology

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#20

“Hannah is a vegetarian; Trace is a cattle rancher. Definitely, not a match made in heaven.
“A horse with a sense of humor. Was that possible?”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

tags: drama, frontier, mystery, romance, suspense, western, western-and-frontier-romance

50 likes

#21

“And I'm certain one day, you'll make it back home.

With love,
Your friend and Cêpan,
-H”
― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

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#22

“mayor inhibidor del cambio se encuentra dentro de uno mismo, y que nada puede mejorar mientras no cambie uno mismo.”
― Spencer Johnson, ¿Quién se ha llevado mi queso?

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#23

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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#24

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love

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#25

“The most compelling new idea that Bratton brought to life stemmed from the broken window theory, which was conceived by the criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling. The broken window theory argues that minor nuisances, if left unchecked, turn into major nuisances: that is, if someone breaks a window and sees it isn’t fixed immediately, he gets the signal that it’s all right to break the rest of the windows and maybe set the building afire too.
So with murder raging all around, Bill Bratton’s cops began to police the sort of deeds that used to go unpoliced: jumping a subway turnstile, panhandling too aggressively, urinating in the streets, swabbing a filthy squeegee across a car’s windshield unless the driver made an appropriate “donation.”
Most New Yorkers loved this crackdown on its own merit. But they particularly loved the idea, as stoutly preached by Bratton and Giuliani, that choking off these small crimes was like choking off the criminal element’s oxygen supply. Today’s turnstile jumper might easily be wanted for yesterday’s murder. That junkie peeing in an alley might have been on his way to a robbery.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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#26

“And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book

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