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#1

“A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the things they think that I want to hear. Accordingly, what I am getting is not information, it is fucking bullshit!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, dangerous, divided, division, french-army, helpless, humanity, invasion, political, vietnam

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#2

“And what the sharp old medic suggested to the Pentagon sent shivers down their spines and set the alarm bells ringing all the way to the White House”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: action-packed, bombs, danger, fast-paced, fiction, kidnapping, pulp-thriller, sea, terrorism, thriller

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#3

“You’ve enlarged your original mission parameters. That’s what happens in war.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: drama, fight, suspense, thriller, war

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#4

“His swearing is methodical, continuous, and apparently entirely senseless.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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#5

“have often thought that the terrible thing in communism was not just that we turned against each other. It was that we turned away from each other.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Shadow Land

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#6

“I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: tell-em-jane

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#7

“Uncountable the number of breaths I've taken for granted in my life.”
― Rebecca Wells

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#8

“The only way for photons to know when they’re being observed is if they are conscious beings. In the quantum world, each of the parts is aware of the whole. A single photon is aware of the quantum state of the entire universe instantaneously always. It has this quality, because it is part of the universal consciousness, in which we are also participants.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: awareness, cosmos, energy-flow, photons, quantum-energy, quantum-entanglement, quantum-realm, space-and-time, subatomic-particles, unseen-energies

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#9

“Only you can charter the course of your destiny.”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

tags: adventure, engaging, exciting, fantasy, life, suspense, teen, ya, ya-lit, young-adult

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#10

“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and gulped. A vision had appeared from somewhere. Was she real? She was tall, with long, glossy light-gold hair surrounding a perfectly shaped face. The front of her silk white robe was open down to a delightful cleavage where a long silver cross hung. As she walked slowly past Alec to sit at the desk, the robe parted for a fleeting glimpse of her leg. A scent of lily of the valley meandered over him. A hand with long graceful fingers indicated for him to sit again in his chair. She was real!
She was, without doubt, the most beautiful woman Alec had ever seen.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: betrayal, church-murder, criminal-masterminds, detective-fiction, emotional-complexity, firsthand-accounts, love-and-loss, melancholy, refugees, symbolism

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#11

“I feel homesick but I don’t know where for.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#12

“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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#13

“You can’t have trust without fairness”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: best-work, business, empower, goals, human-resource, insightful, leader, sentiment, suboptimal, workplace-experiences

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#14

“Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes...
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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#15

“He meant you are gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything is new, dawn. It's just. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold.”
― S.E. Hinton

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#16

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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#17

“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

tags: radical

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#18

“How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

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#19

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, climatic, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable

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#20

“… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, democratic, freedom, justice, liberty, monopolistic, myth, oppression, society, totalitarian-system

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#21

“She didn’t just feel safe.
She felt chosen.
And for the first time in her life, that felt… right.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

tags: drama, evocative, excitement, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, redemptive, self-actualisation, struggles, thriller

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#22

“This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: christmas, festive, humbug, humour, writers-life

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#23

“You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
― 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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#24

“When you are on a feeling frequency of love, then only people who are on the same feeling frequency as you are can come into your life.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Power

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#25

“His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion. It was intrigue, of course.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

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#26

“THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANTS

One fine day in winter some Ants were busy drying their store of corn, which had got rather damp during a long spell of rain. Presently up came a Grasshopper and begged them to spare her a few grains, "For," she said, "I'm simply starving." The Ants stopped work for a moment, though this was against their principles. "May we ask," said they, "what you were doing with yourself all last summer? Why didn't you collect a store of food for the winter?" "The fact is," replied the Grasshopper, "I was so busy singing that I hadn't the time." "If you spent the summer singing," replied the Ants, "you can't do better than spend the winter dancing." And they chuckled and went on with their work.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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#27

“As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”
― Alexandre Dumas

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#28

“I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is basically what a rejection letter is like:

Hello Pathetic Moron,

We read your book. It sucked. Don't send us another one. If you do, we will run over your grandmother with a bus. Don't Do It.

From, Your Publisher”
― James Dashner

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#29

“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

tags: death, guilt, madness

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