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    C. Toni Graham
    “I’m sure you've heard the adage "thoughts are things" or perhaps "believe and you will achieve". There are variations on these principles, but they drill down to the same basic concept; it's a mindset and it works.”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: awakening, concept, embrace-life, ideas, mindet, power, proud, risks
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    Michael Tobert
    “His world closes in. The sky is endless no longer but pieced into squares of brick and bright cloths hanging down to dry. Underfoot, no longer stone but rubble, earth, the peelings and rotted scraps of the inedible. He smells the smoke of cooking fires, he hears men arguing and babies screaming like seagulls, he sees young women looking shyly down from high windows, exchanging glances. Now, he is no longer the watcher. Watched. Shouts echo in the dark between twisted walls and back alleys. A twisted smile in a doorway. A stranger’s voice. A stranger’s language.”
    ― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
    tags: family-life, fiction, fiction-novel, herritage, historical, history, insight, love, romance, struggles
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    Carolyn Cutler Hughes
    “When we see a door closed very tight, God sees a window right in our sight.”
    ― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye
    tags: be-happy, believe, change, courage, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, positive, young-readers
    106 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Lieutenant Linh said, “Thank you for this valuable information, it gives us an opportunity to take counter-measures to nullify the American attack! I have here, over a thousand young and inexperienced soldiers who are a bit fearful of the Americans. Our young soldiers are asking questions like, “Will an old carbine bullet kill a big American?” and “Would a bullet actually kill a big black American?” He went on to say, “I reassure them that their bullets will kill Americans if they strike at the right spot!” Later on, he was to say, “Four days later, the Americans came. We watched with heavy hearts as their helicopters endlessly were landing men.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: bad, ethics, good, sociology, truth, united, unity, unrest, warring, world-war
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    S.W. Clemens
    “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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    Kyle Keyes
    “Somehow, creation manages to form without species intervention.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations
    tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure
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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
    41 likes

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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
    92 likes

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    S.G. Blaise
    “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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  • #10
    “As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
    ― Colin Phelan, The Local School
    tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value
    146 likes

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    Paula Hawkins
    “Nobody warned me it would break us. But it did. Or rather, it broke me, and then I broke us.”
    ― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Deep in earth my love is lying
    And I must weep alone.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: bereavement, crying, sorrow
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    Herman Wouk
    “smoochers....Blob after blob after blob...squirming in the dark is a clever night's work....When they're all being shoved by body chemicals through a mindless mechanical process, like so many pairs of stuck-together frogs.”
    ― Herman Wouk
    tags: romance
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?"
    "Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?"
    "No. I was unconscious.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex
    tags: artemis-fowl, foaly, iceland, unconscious
    75 likes

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  • #15
    Peter B. Forster
    “Yesterday was surreal. At times K was almost back to herself…funny…interested and relatively mobile. She was tactile and we kissed…she whispered naughty comments into my ear…achingly beautiful…I love her so much”
    ― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
    tags: life, memoir, truth
    412 likes



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