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#1

“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: documented, fiction, historical, recount-of-war, truth, unity, unrest, war, warring, world

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#2

“Before machine learning, multivariate regression provided an efficient way to condition on multiple things, without the need to calculate dozens, hundreds, or thousands of conditional averages. Regression takes the data and tries to find the result that minimizes prediction mistakes, maximizing what is called “goodness of fit.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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#3

“Abdul and Mohamed sat down, chilling the conversation at the table. They spoke in Urdu, unaware Lily understood them. When her expression changed subtly, Abdul noticed and switched to speaking English with a mundane comment.”
― Dennis K. Hausker, Secrets: in a corrupted society

tags: adventure, afghanistan, apocalyptic, danger, dystopian, exciting, gripping, missions, mystery, political

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#4

“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?,” a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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#5

“Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

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#6

“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
― Heath Sommer

tags: the-manufactured-identity

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#7

“She has the blood of a wolf,” said Joffrey.
“And you have the wits of a goose,” said Tyrion.
“You can’t talk to me that way. The king can do as he likes.”
“Aerys Targaryen did as he liked. Has you mother ever told you what happened to him?”
Ser Boros Blount harrumphed. “No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.”
Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threating the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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#8

“Thus began the Bulloch line in America, the annals of which, by Mittie’s time, included one noted”
― David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback

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#9

“There was another thing bigger than the tiredness – and this was the strong crew purpose.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

tags: determination, goal-setting, resolve

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#10

“She was on the outside here too, just like at school. Even in the circular room, with all the fish swimming around her, she was on the outside. She was in the middle, but on the outside.”
― Louis Sachar, Someday Angeline

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#11

“If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant

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#12

“and still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward.”
― V.C. Andrews, The Flowers in the Attic Series: The Dollangangers

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#13

“General, you may attack'...He gave no further directions...With that word it was out of his hands. It had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

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#14

“A large number of men went off to war this way, feeling muted bitterness or hopeless rebellion against fate, which twice in their lifetimes had played this horrible trick on them.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

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#15

“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, intrigue, magic, mystery

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#16

“Why was I the Most Popular President Who Ever Lived?
I castrated the IRS, implemented the National Sales Tax (Fair Tax) and brought an end to parasitic government - all through the use of numbers, statistics. business metrics, graphs, pie charts, efficiency - in short - results.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: america, american-history, discovery, fiction, historical-fiction, history, humour, satire, satirical, witty

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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

“Love is described like GOD.”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: aniaml, female-body, feminism, love

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#19

“The truth has a way of coming out of the closet.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action-packed, drama, genetics, gripping, love, political, science-fiction, supremacist, thrilling, war

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#20

“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.”
― John Rachel

tags: cultural-relativism, detroit, feminism, incarceration

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#21

“Angela Wexler, person”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

tags: identity

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#22

“He is the prospector of the air, perpetually searching its strata for olfactory gold.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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#23

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: bhie, broken-heart, jodi-picoult, love, my-sister-s-keeper

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#24

“But a people, having taken its rise in civilization and democracy, which should gradually establish an inequality of conditions, until it arrived at inviolable privileges and exclusive castes, would be a novelty in the world; and nothing intimates that America is likely to furnish so singular an example.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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