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#1

“The ultimate pacifist with a gun! That’s my girl, always with surprises.”
― Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures

tags: action, adventure, cultures, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, secrets, truth

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#2

“They don't know what a stand up guy you are."
"Even more so, now that I have four legs, right?”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: chosen-family, curiosity, hardship, intrigue, legend, loss, murder, nature, secrets, young-adult-fiction

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#3

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, exciting, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

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#4

“A saint has control over his anger and itches.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

tags: funny-quotes, humorous-quotes, humourous-quote, satire-quotes, self-control-quotes, spiritual-humour, spirituality

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#5

“Cindy extended her hand. I got up, faced her, and shook her hand. A strong handshake. This was definitely a no-nonsense young woman.
“I recognize you from your pictures, Mr. Ludefance.”
“Pleasure to meet you, Cindy. And you can call me Jack. I’m afraid you have the advantage. You probably did a Google search on me and have all my background information?”
She didn’t hesitate. “Yes.”
“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”
“I don’t.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

tags: drama, excitement, murder-mystery

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#6

“Crickey, love, what happened here? Are you hurt?” he asked, lifting her to her feet, the surfboard leash still wrapped around her foot.

Her eyes worked their way up his torso, along the plush green towel hugging his midsection. Catherine couldn’t help staring at his well-formed abs and chest before making her way up to his concerned eyes.

“Obviously I fell,” Catherine said. “I think I got a splinter.”

“Let me see,” Jake insisted, taking her hand into his. “It’s small. I can take care of that in a snap.”

Staring up into his deep blue eyes, Catherine could feel herself drowning in the depths of them, unconsciously resting her other hand upon his dampened chest to steady herself.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: achievement, adventure, courage, dreams, emotional, fight, goals, hardships, reality, seeking

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#7

“An algorithm that expedites care to a stroke patient in a chaotic emergency room (ER) has a good chance of adoption. An algorithm that reads a routine scan and provides some quantification of what the physicians can already estimate won’t be in as much demand. There are good reasons for algorithms to parse patient records to look for signs of rare diseases, but there are fewer good reasons for using them to evaluate clinical symptoms. It’s cool that AI tools can make diagnoses from scratch, but for most clinical encounters doctors are already pretty good at it.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: brain, care-givers, covid-19, evaluations, experiences, humans, motivation, physicians, scans, treatment

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#8

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#9

“Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died."
"Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake.
"My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat."
"It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss."
"What did you do to help her get through it?"
Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy."
Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: action-packed, assasination, drama, dystopian, gripping, love, romance, thriller, war

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#10

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma

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#11

“When you are Real you don't mind being hurt”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

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#12

“Nunca dejes de sonreír, ni siquiera cuando estés triste, porque nunca sabes quien se puede enamorar de tu sonrisa.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: inspirational

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#13

“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

tags: attributes, characteristics, detection, detectives, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes

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#14

“Anyway, Sophie’s experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

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#15

“People say that Kashmir was crafted by God’s own hand. He molded the high mountains and hills that stretch as far as the eye can see, purified the crystal blue rivers and lakes, and painted the grass with His brush. He’s kept its beauty fresh ever since, a slice of heaven on earth.

I don’t believe that. I think God forgot about us a long time ago. The aesthetic countryside is nothing but a facade, an illusion. Underneath the land’s mirage of beauty lies the truth, and this truth is the one thing the people of Kashmir understand above all else: suffering.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir

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#16

“To interviewers who lamented that life in the time of plague had become so unreal, I'd reply that no, actually *this* was real. What's unreal is the fantasy we humans have been living: growing on and on, in denial of the obvious.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

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#17

“It’s pretty confusing.”
“Good. Be confused. Confusion is where inspiration comes from.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: brain, confusing, confusion, inspiration, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientists

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#18

“And yet the most jarring part of the grassroots anti-extraction uprising has been the rude realization that most communities do appear to lack this power; that outside forces—a far-off central government, working hand-in-glove with transnational companies—are simply imposing enormous health and safety risks on residents, even when that means overturning local laws. Fracking, tar sands pipelines, coal trains, and export terminals are being proposed in many parts of the world where a clear majority of the population has made its opposition unmistakable, at the ballot box, through official consultation processes, and in the streets.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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#19

“Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)”
― Nikolas Schreck

tags: cretins, rats, scum, vermin, vile

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#20

“I hate Gucci,' said Francis.

'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.'

'Come on, Henry.'

'Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.'

'I don't see what you think is grand about that.'

'Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale,' said Henry.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: grandness

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#21

“Science Fiction, is the last great escape.”
― A.R. Merrydew

tags: ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, cyberpunk, futuristic, robotics, techno, technology

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#22

“I swallowed a sigh since, truthfully, I was glad she found the cabin.”
― 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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#23

“Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: children-s, fantasy, occult, paranormal, supernatural, teenagers, urban, ya-paranormal, young-adult

415 likes

#24

“Real leadership is treating your least favorite employee the same as your favorite”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: bias, business, chemistry, motivations, organisations, relationship, retention, science, sentiment, unwritten-rules

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#25

“When we hold health and abundance in our self-identity, we create experiences of that quality. If we choose to be attuned to the energy of our heart and feel love and compassion, we create experiences in the same energy spectrum as that of peace, love and joy.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: collective-consciousness, energy-entanglement, physics, spiritual, spiritual-awareness, spirituality, unlocking-the-power-within

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#26

“There will be a time when I will answer everything, Avelyn. But it is far in the future for you.”
― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel

tags: character-growth, dark-lands, determination, dramatic, fantasy-series, heart-stopping, overcoming-fear, reluctant-hero, sacrifice, toadskunks

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#27

“Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the "white sails" of the Chesapeake were bound, you began, I see, to gauge the wretchedness of the slave, not by his hunger and want, not by his lashes and toil, but by the cruel and blighting death which gathers over his soul.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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#28

“I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#29

“These are things," Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, "that the church calls sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing--" He paused. "--is to be kind.”
― Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River

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#30

“[S]ilence supports the accuser’s charge?”
― Sophocles

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