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#1

“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent. People are not conscious beings, just ask any marketer. Irrationality of the early explorers, irrationality of the new ones, irrationality of the place we go into. What a great canvas we have to paint on...”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

tags: africa, awareness, biography, explore, fascination, insight, memoir, raw, reflective, wild

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#2

“Mama had kept me ignorant, and my father kept what didn’t belong to him. One’s parents may have flaws, but one didn’t have to inherit them.”
― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

tags: action, dark, drama, fast-paced, fiction, mystery, thriller, thriller-novel

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#3

“…I was finding that reporting the news wasn't enough. I wanted to be more than just a paid observer. I wanted to be in the fight. I got my chance.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

tags: biography, coming-of-age, conversational, fall, glass-ceiling, illuminate, karen-hinton, moral-failures, rise, surreal

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#4

“ Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: adventure, drama, dystopian, fantasy-novel, fast-paced, full-on, funny, gripping, magical, wars

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#5

“For now, I had escaped. I was free. And I wanted to know what freedom really felt like, at least for a while.”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

tags: different, dystopian, escape, fear, fiction, mystery, plot-turns, special-child, unexpected, unknown

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#6

“What does regression do? It finds a prediction based on the average of what has occurred in the past. For instance, if all you have to go on to determine whether it is going to rain tomorrow is what happened each day last week, your best guess might be an average. If it rained on two of the last seven days, you might predict that the probability of rain tomorrow is around two in seven, or 29 percent. Much of what we know about prediction has been making our calculations of the average better by building models that can take in more data about the context.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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#7

“I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart begin to race and I began to feel dizzy as my visual field became black. That is the last thing I recall before awakening to find myself lying on the ground in the front yard, with the handle of the rake resting on my chest.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: heartfelt, helping-others, hospital-bureaucracy, humour, manipulation, medical, medical-drama, medical-fiction, overworked, passion

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#8

“I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: pretend

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#9

“The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together. ”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: interpretation, story

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#10

“A portion of the electorate will always levitate toward the scratch and sniff candidate, granting them superficial appeasement without any substance.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, A Battle of Angels

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#11

“Suicide. It's something I've been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it.”

That's the note. Word for word. And I know it's word for word because I wrote it dozens of times before delivering it. I'd write it, throw it away, write it, crumple it up, throw it away.

But why was I writing it to begin with? I asked myself that question every time I printed the words onto a new sheet of paper. Why was I writing this note? It was a lie. I hadn't been thinking about it. Not really. Not in detail. The thought would come into my head and I'd push it away.

But I pushed it away a lot.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

tags: suicidal-thoughts, suicide

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#12

“My belief is that we have an opportunity, each and every day, to make choices that can have a positive impact, or not. Each day we awake is like a reset. Decide each day to make impactful choices.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: christian, growth, inspirational, inspiring, introspective, memoir, motivating, motivational, personal-development, self-help

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