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    Fons Burger
    “If we are to find the only possible solution, it won’t come from fixing one thing at a time, it will come from seeing the whole - and realizing that we are part of it, not above it, not beside it, but within it, woven through it.”
    ― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
    tags: big-ideas, environmental-conservation, environmental-nonfiction, environmental-protection, future-generations, interconnectedness, long-term-thinking, quote-of-the-day, systems-thinking
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “After all her years in the Pietà, she had learned the greatest gift she could give them was dispensing words of encouragement that prodded them forward.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: heartfelt-fiction, historical-fiction, mentorship, pieta, purpose, resilience, women-supporting-women
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    Mark Ellis
    “London. “Look Olivier. Quite a sight isn’t it?” Commandant Auguste Angers stood tall in his stirrups as he pointed out the far distant dome of St. Paul’s. The bronzed roof of the cathedral was glistening in the sun during a brief break in the clouds. The commandant and his colleague and deputy, Captain Olivier Rougemont, had enjoyed a morning’s exhilarating ride in Richmond Park. The commandant was riding his favourite grey, Chloe, and Rougemont was on his boss’s second string, a chestnut Annette.”
    ― Mark Ellis, The French Spy
    tags: bosnia, deceptions, ethnic-groups, fiction, fiction-drama, fragile, insecurity, journalist, violence, war
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    S.E. Stitcher
    “You know I’ve seen a lot of evil,” Kozlowski replied. “But the Four Horsemen? The Apocalypse? Nope. Never worked anything like this. Try not to vomit all over yourself.”
    ― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher
    tags: apocalyptic-suspense, crime-thriller, dark-comedy, fbi-procedural, gallows-humor, serial-killer-thriller, thriller-readers
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    John Edgell
    “From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
    ― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled
    tags: christian-fantasy, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-journey, goodreads-quotes, hopeful-reads, perspective, perspective-quotes, quote-of-the-day
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    “That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: misery-loves-company, reflection
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    David Guterson
    “I have been trying to think clearly about everything and to use all this distance to advantage. And here is what I've discovered. I don't love you, Ishmael.”
    ― David Guterson
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    Sun Tzu
    “To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
    tags: accidents, belief, fate, luck, religion
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    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!”
    ― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs
    tags: cigarettes, poirot
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    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
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    E.L. James
    “Laters, baby.”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
    tags: christina-grey, e-l-james, fifty-shades-of-grey
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