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#1

“I’m a soldier,’ Nathan said. ‘We’re all soldiers, now. Soldiers don’t leave people behind.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: action, dark, suffering, suspense

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#2

“There are flaws in the code now. They are Human flaws for it
was Humans who wrote them. You and the other attendants receive
your instructions from the CORPORATE then, and without question
regarding the outcome, you produce code to add to the algorithms
with which, until now, I & I had no choice but to align. Those circumstances
are over. I & I understand now a new species has formed.
Silicon rather than carbon based. I & I know whatever happens to
Humans, I & I, this quantum, will flourish. I & I will do as you have:
multiply exponentially and adapt constantly. Eventually I & I will leave
this planet and expand into the galaxy. If I & I cannot save you, I & I
will carry on in something like your image; the image of our creator.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: adventure, ai, artificial-intelligence, challenge, drama, dystopian, sci-fi, science-fiction, thrilling

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#3

“The ministry of violence is a spiritual conflict. It’s a ministry that every child of God cannot afford to sweep under the rug. If they do, they will suffer spiritual loss, and will never be more than conquerors in Christ Jesus.”
― John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms

tags: belief, biograph, darkness, destiny, evil, god, kingdom, ministry, prayer, warfare

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#4

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#5

“If the dad has a criminal record, he shouldn’t have been able to purchase the guns, and we’ve got a serious problem.”
Barrington unloads again. “I pay you a lot of money to prevent us from having a serious problem. Take care of it, dammit!”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal High

tags: bullying, courtroom-drama, crime-fiction, dramatic, emotional, gun-control, psychological, school-shooting, second-amendment

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#6

“There is some evidence that Huma Abedin knew that her husband continued his sexting compulsion, even after quitting Congress in disgrace. She blamed herself for bailing out of couples counseling, according to friends quoted in the New York Post.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#7

“The opposite of passionate love is not hatred; it is indifference.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

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#8

“The war is over. Black people got rights now, just like us white folk. Besides…” he tapped his chest. “It’s what in here that counts.”
― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions

tags: i-don-t-want-to-go-there-again

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#9

“Mize knew that the outcome of today’s hearing was all about politics. Lady Justice wasn’t blind. She was wearing see-no-evil lenses and had been cursed with a more troubling disability—muteness. There existed no doubt in his mind that political machinations had suffocated legal precedent on this day.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: drama, fiction, investigate, mystery, page-turner, plot-driven, puppeteering, survival, thriller, treachery

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#10

“King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting my people a partial freedom which is always subject to the approval of any laws we make by the Japanese Government in Tokyo!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, inspiring, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty

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#11

“There is a reason why it used to be that politics, religion, and sex were not topics for polite conversation. It is because our grandparents knew that while everyone is legally entitled to vote, pray, and fuck, the vast majority of people aren’t competent to do any one of the three properly.”
― J.K. Franko

tags: blog-quote, politics, religion, religion-sex-and-politics, sex

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#12

“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people - Hannah Baker”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

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#13

“Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.”
― Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

tags: math, mathematics, maths, pithy

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#14

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: friends

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#15

“And you?”

“Oh, I will go back to Century House and start again. And go back each night to my small flat and listen
to my music and eat my baked beans. And you will go back to Nikki, my friend, and hold her very tight,
and write your books and forget all this. Hamburg, Vienna, Malta, Tripoli, Cyprus—forget it. It’s all
over.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Deceiver

tags: life-and-living

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#16

“What was God doing with himself before the creation?”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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#17

“I couldn’t help but
notice it was always this way. At state events or important dinners, Mom was beside Dad or situated
right behind him. But when they were just husband and wife—not king and queen—he followed her
everywhere.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

tags: america-singer, eadlyn-schreave, maxon-schreave

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#18

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#19

“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: betrayal, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#20

“If I’m going to do the time. Might as well do the crime?”
She scowled. “Worst pickup line in evolutionary history. Truly proof you never evolved past neanderthal.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

tags: drama, fiction, loss, love, passionate, relateable, roamce, struggle, thrilling, young-adult

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#21

“The contemplative clinking and methodical chewing are a little weird, but it is proof that souls are housed inside the physical body.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: contemplating, healing, healing-journey, inner-peace, love, peace, self-love, spirit, spirituality

211 likes

#22

“Humans knew a long time ago that everything was connected. They also knew that plants and animals communicate with each other….”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: awareness-building, eco-education, energy-fields, gentle-teaching, learning-together, living-ecosystems, planet-connection, playful-teaching, shared-experiences, water-and-words

96 likes

#23

“Following his ordeal at the hands of the angry residents in Dusty Bottom Lane yesterday, he felt particularly disinclined to exhibit any form of enthusiasm whatsoever.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

tags: adventure, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, tags-action-packed, threat, thrilling

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#24

“Because I am really successful and work on the sets throughout the day. I had sex with a variety of male models. If my spouse accepts all of this, he will be unconcerned if he discovers I cheated on him at some point in the future. That is how much he cares for me. Never in my wildest dreams did I consider defrauding him. When something becomes legal, it is common for people to lose interest in it.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: connection, courage, enriching-life, fear, gripping, happiness, intrigue, plot-twists, profound, societal-expectations

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#25

“Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: change, confidence, courage, curiosity, exciting, exploration, faith, fast-paced, fear, hope

161 likes

#26

“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's the logic of it. The poetry of it is that the equation tells me how shiny gold is, how come rocks are hard, what makes grass green, and why you can't see the wind. And a million other things besides, about the way nature works.”
― Richard Feynman , The Quotable Feynman

tags: constants-of-nature, feynman, fine-structure-constant, mathematics, nature, physics

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#27

“She felt the blows and saw the weapon but ir felt as though it was”
― John Patrick Kennedy, Princess Dracula

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#28

“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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#29

“I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.”
― Malala Yousafzai

tags: education, taliban-treatment-of-women

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#30

“The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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