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    Charles Dowding
    “Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
    tags: care, feed, gardening, grow, herbs, horticulture, nature, plants, soil
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    Michael Tobert
    “Thatched huts of mud sit humped in rows. Between the rows, a stagnant stream of sewage stews like thick soup bubbling in the clotted heat. Mosquitoes swarm. Garbage rots. Parvati gathers her sari about her and steps as lightly as she can down this gutter of filth. The boy stops outside one of the huts. Parvati and Sunil push aside the sacking that is over the doorway, stoop and step down onto a mud floor. Inside, there is no window, no light and no air. Only heat. Parvati puts her hand to her long elegant throat. Above her, one end of the roof is sagging as if about to collapse.
    ‘Bustee, very good,’ says the boy smiling.”
    ― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
    tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, heritage, historical-fiction, history, insight, love, multi-layered
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    S.G. Blaise
    “The road to power is forged with lies and lives,” Loch says. “I have no regrets.”
    ― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian
    tags: lies, science-fiction, truth, war
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    “Water is to India as blood is to the body, with the many rivers functioning as arteries – the Ganges being the aorta – and the monsoon timelessly arriving as a much-needed annual blood transfusion.”
    ― Colin Phelan, The Local School
    tags: find-oneself, friendships, identify, identity, life-lessons, philosophy, political-history, teachings, universal-values
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    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Heidi's role as grand master was to monitor all the women and to manage their locations and communication. Even though she’d done this many times on multiple missions, her heartbeat still pounded in her ears.”
    ― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street
    tags: cozy-mystery, cozy-romance, small-town-mystery
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    John Bennardo
    “I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for me. He was really surprised - his favorite drink is actually 7UP. But he complimented me for getting the color of the can right.”
    ― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
    tags: biting-satire, celebrities, fiction, honest, humorous, literature, modern-fiction, satire, satirical, satirical-fiction
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    C. Toni Graham
    “Tolerance doesn’t mean to accept, believe, understand, agree or ignore. Tolerance means yielding to beliefs that are not your own without judgement or condemnation.”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: crossroads, explore, gratitude, journey, learn, life, opportunity, respect, satisfaction, take-risks
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    “Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this city… if that.”
    ― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
    tags: army, battles, danger, destruction, life, secrets, spies, unrest, war
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “I knew I rode a rugged crest of turmoil that might crash on the rocky shore of irrational behavior.”
    ― 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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    Rick Mystrom
    “How We Gain and Lose Weight
    To understand how we gain and lose weight, we need to start with insulin. Medical researchers and internal medicine doctors almost universally agree that the amount of insulin a person produces determines weight gain and weight loss. For example, Gary Taubes, a medical researcher and recipient of multiple awards from the National Association of Science Writers, refers to insulin as “the stop-and-go light of weight gain and loss.” 
     
    Produce more insulin—you will gain weight. Produce less insulin— you will lose weight.”
    ― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
    tags: active, diabetes, diet-book, food-choices, health-coach, lifestyle, recipes, sugar-control, weight-loss, weight-management
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    Tom Baldwin
    “No one else could share his quandary. His agonies were a mixture of shame, of loss fueled by profoundly rooted fury—solitary burdens he had carried with him like pockets of sorrow weighing him down, forcing him to become stronger. When the Devil was gnawing at him, he’d withstood the pain.”
    ― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm
    tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, intense, legal, suspense, thriller
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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey’s speech proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events.”
    ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
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    Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
    “कालो ऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो..... ( I am Time, the great destroyer of the world ~Bhagavad Gita 11.32)”
    ― Ved Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ”
    ― Evelyn Waugh
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
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    Agatha Christie
    “...You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.”
    ― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
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    Norton Juster
    “I soon discovered the truth of an old saying: “When God wants to punish you, he grants your wishes.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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