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    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “Josh's heart soared as he got a taste of the power and endurance in his elk body.”
    ― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley
    tags: action, animals, conflict, mountains, nature, pain, relationships, tense, violence, ya-fantasy
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  • #2
    “Cognitive robotics can integrate information from pre-operation medical records with real-time operating metrics to guide and enhance the precision of physicians’ instruments. By processing data from genuine surgical experiences, they’re able to provide new and improved insights and techniques. These kinds of improvements can improve patient outcomes and boost trust in AI throughout the surgery. Robotics can lead to a 21% reduction in length of stay.”
    ― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
    tags: balance, education, educational, help, improvement, learning, obstacles, past, present, treatment
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    Max Nowaz
    “He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on the form he had filled in for a dating agency. As an airline pilot you could be away just the right amount of time, when you needed a break from your love life, without facing awkward questions from her when you got back.”
    ― 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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    Sara Pascoe
    “Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal
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  • #5
    Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin
    “Though your steps may falter
    persevere with the climb,
    You will achieve the summit
    at the appropriate time.”
    ― Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifice For A Kingdom
    tags: inspirational, tenacity-quotes
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-greece, conflict, drama, educational, greek-gods, iction, insightful, love-story, romance, spartans
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  • #7
    Joseph Heller
    “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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  • #8
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I just want to know—are you rooting for me? Are you hoping I pull this off?"

    Cath's eyes settled on his, tentatively, like they'd fly away if he moved.

    She nodded her head.

    The right side of his mouth pulled up.

    "I'm rooting for you," she whispered. She wasn't even sure he could hear her from the bed.

    Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: contemporary-fiction, new-adult, young-adult
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  • #9
    Tatiana de Rosnay
    “Remember. Never forget.”
    ― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key
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  • #10
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: life, opportunism, truth, values
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  • #11
    “Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works."
    "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.”
    ― Garth Nix, Lord Sunday
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  • #12
    Hugo Woolley
    “His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and gulped. A vision had appeared from somewhere. Was she real? She was tall, with long, glossy light-gold hair surrounding a perfectly shaped face. The front of her silk white robe was open down to a delightful cleavage where a long silver cross hung. As she walked slowly past Alec to sit at the desk, the robe parted for a fleeting glimpse of her leg. A scent of lily of the valley meandered over him. A hand with long graceful fingers indicated for him to sit again in his chair. She was real!
    She was, without doubt, the most beautiful woman Alec had ever seen.”
    ― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap
    tags: betrayal, church-murder, criminal-masterminds, detective-fiction, emotional-complexity, firsthand-accounts, love-and-loss, melancholy, refugees, symbolism
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  • #13
    “Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: life, philosophical, philosophical-musings
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  • #14
    C. Toni Graham
    “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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    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “Real leadership is treating your least favorite employee the same as your favorite”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: bias, business, chemistry, motivations, organisations, relationship, retention, science, sentiment, unwritten-rules
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
    Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence
    tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “After World War Two, the Australian army had been re-organised into its peace-time army status. The army was primarily three battalions which together with supporting units, formed a regiment and the battalions making up the regiment were identified by both their number and the title of the regiment. This meant that the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment was identified by the initials of 1RAR. The two other battalions were identified as 2RAR or 3RAR. At the height of Australia’s commitment to the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) Australia had a total of nine battalions which were later called the First Division.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: entertaining, factual, indochina-war, insightful, united, unity, unrest, warring, world
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  • #18
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Justin Cronin
    “It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.”
    ― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors
    tags: blood
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  • #20
    Ken Follett
    “It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were.”
    ― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
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  • #21
    Alan Brennert
    “kapa cloth,”
    ― Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
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  • #22
    Gregory Maguire
    “One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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  • #23
    Naomi Klein
    “And so the question remains: What aren’t we building when we are building our brands?”
    ― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
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