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#1

“Locating the village elders, he said to them, “I think that we are in for a bad time. The American Sky Soldiers are coming by helicopter and the usual things the Americans do of air strikes by fighter-bombers and by B52 large bombers is starting at Long Phuoc! I fear the worst!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, educational, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#2

“Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

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#3

“And what if Britain lost? There would be a financial crisis, unemployment, and destitution. Working-class men would take up Ethel’s father’s cry and say that they had never been allowed to vote for the war. The people’s rage against their rulers would be boundless.”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

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#4

“Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

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#5

“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
― Albert Camus

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#6

“She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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#7

“ “Bad news. The Egyptians have left Bogotá on one of six American Airlines’ flights. Steve, I lost them.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: biotechnology, desire, iran, middle-east, military, nuclear, scientists, suspense, war

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#8

“As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: admiration, bonds, controversies, democracy, friends, influential, leaders, policy, research, respec

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#9

“ ‘I knew it, I knew it, I damn well knew it,’ he shouted. ‘The President was right you’re all infected with this wretched MeMe chromosome even at the dawn of your pathetic little planet’s evolution. You do realise of course there’s no hope for you. It’s all going to be a complete and utter waste of time. You and your little planet are all doomed.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: excitement, fast-paced, full-on, funny, galaxy, gripping, sci-fi

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#10

“There was no private ownership of land. "You could own a knife, or you could own a horse, but you couldn't own ground any more than you could own the sun or the wind. The Earth was their mother and part of the Cosmos given to all creatures by the Great Spirit.”
― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

tags: awareness, biographical, experience, journey, liberating, life, life-journey, love, reflective, spiritual

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#11

“You understand that you are being manipulated by others and you become overwhelmed by hospital bureaucracy. It feels as though you have been violated by administrators who have robbed you of your passion for helping children. That passion that drove you to become a healthcare provider is replaced with mistrust, negativity, and hopeless skepticism.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: drama, family-life, fiction, hospital, personal-growth, re-building, realistic, stress, strife, thriller

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#12

“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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#13

“Neither Felicity nor James Heron paid much attention to the reports. They had other things on their minds. All too soon they would have to part, each to their own roles and duties. Both were aware of this, and both needed to enjoy their last few hours together. Who knew what the future might throw at them?
Felicity reached out and shut down the holo display of the broadcast, then she surrendered to his attentions. In a few hours they must part, but now they could live in the moment, and in each other’s arms.”
― Patrick G Cox, First into the Fray

tags: action, adventure, drama, exciting, fiction, intrigue, ships, space, weapons

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#14

“Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

tags: emptiness

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#15

“One day, at least it seemed that fast, she just stopped wanting to be a part of anything.”
― Jay Asher

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#16

“Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

tags: community, escape, freedom, individual, obedience, purpose, religion, west

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#17

“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love, passion, romance

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#18

“Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward; men seldom do,—for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, men, women

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#19

“Tis so beautiful—flowers every day of the year. You can always smell them in the air, even out to sea.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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#20

“Her unexpected outburst rocked Flaminius to his core. Suddenly, she didn't seem so angelic. Her face twisted with rage; veins in her neck throbbed with fury in a scene all too familiar. Her reaction switched him off to her instantly as all his worst fears came to life.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, war

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#21

“With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: sara-pascoe, women-s-humor

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#22

“Yalnızca hırsızlar ve çocuklar koşar.”
― Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring

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#23

“I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

tags: important-things

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#24

“nothing is straightforward in the world of literary taste.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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#25

“TRAD, she screams silently, hands pressed to the barrier. The light intensifies, and then it’s gone, she’s gone – all of the children are gone.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique

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#26

“A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.”
― Munro Leaf, Who Cares? I Do.

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#27

“Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For

tags: a-dame-to-kill-for, frank-miller, guardian-angel, marv, nancy, sin-city

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