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#1

“Wait, Korban, are you vexed?"
"That woman, she confounds, and insults me."
"Women can perplex as easily as changing a cloak."
"The princess is delicate, not like our women."
"Yes, she is very delicate, pretty like a sweet flower."
"Well, I care not for her. I will think no more about her, ever.”
― Dennis K Hausker, Primitives of Kar

tags: action, adventure, drama, excitement, exciting, fiction, griping, intrigue, romance, thrilling

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#2

“Laurel had one thousand year-round residents and our share of bar fights, car accidents, marital disputes, and an occasional breaking and entering. What we didn't have were missing teenage girls.”
― Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village

tags: action, danger, drama, fast-paced, ictional, investigation, lies, missing-persons, secrets, suspense

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#3

“I said to Hun Sen, “Thank you, Hun! You have also told me that there was a kidnapping incident which almost bankrupted your family! Can you please elaborate upon that?”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: army, band-of-brothers, family, front-line, guns, love, loyalty, military-budget, pilots

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#4

“Steve shook his head in amazement. ‘If that GOD person hadn’t left that case, we wouldn’t have any of this.’
Thomas agreed. ‘Personally, I can’t praise him enough.’ ”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: ai, androids, colonies, fantasy, fast-paced, fear, future, love, romance, weapons

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#5

“Before machine learning, multivariate regression provided an efficient way to condition on multiple things, without the need to calculate dozens, hundreds, or thousands of conditional averages. Regression takes the data and tries to find the result that minimizes prediction mistakes, maximizing what is called “goodness of fit.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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#6

“You won’t get fired if you do something, you will if you don’t do anything. Do something if it is wrong, for you can correct that, but there is no way to correct nothing.”
― David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas

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#7

“Kerabe?”
― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

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#8

“The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth then it was in the minds of those who remembered them...”
― Tom Clancy, Without Remorse

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#9

“Because that’s really something I can’t stand — when people refer to themselves as crazy. The truly crazy are labeled so on the grounds that they see nothing wrong with their behavior. They forge ahead, lighting fires in public buildings and defecating in frying pans without the slightest notion that they are out of step with the rest of society. That, to me, is crazy.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

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#10

“Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

tags: humor, thinking

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#11

“A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving; 'tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.”
― Edmond Rostand

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#12

“I found it interesting when, after the program, both Mrs. Rath and Mrs. Walker mentioned how nice it was to see Ira attending school and community events again.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: community, found-family, grandparent-bond, growth, healing, heartwarming, quiet-transformation, small-town-life

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#13

“So, let me get this right. You invented this groundbreaking medical technology that changes the way we literally do everything in trauma and blood, and you are out here, 30.3 light-years away from Earth, on a planet where everyone involved in the Eden project was a hundred percent sure there’d be no DNA, blood, or anything? And now here we are playing with the DNA of an alien race? What is this? What is actually going on here?”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: alien-dna, bio-tech, deep-space, ethics-in-science, first-contact, genetic-engineering, hard-sci-fi, medical-sci-fi, science-gone-wrong, space-exploratio

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#14

“It's only in my head, the madness. And there's no way of knowing if all this is going on in everyone else's head too without exposing myself, and I'd rather be insane and on the loose than locked up in a hospital.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#15

“Their renewed sense of hope had fired up their fatigued muscles like a burst of steam powering a locomotive.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: determination, historical-fiction, hope-and-grit, industrial-imagery, locomotive-metaphor, motivational-quote, readers-inspiration, resilience

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#16

“Brands don’t exist in decks; they exist in decisions.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

tags: brand-builders, brand-leadership, business-books, decision-making, execution, leadership-mindset, marketing-nonfiction, strategy

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#17

“Nonna was steady and safe and always took a strong lead.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: comfort-read, coming-of-age, found-family, grandmother-bond, historical-fiction, resilience, women-supporting-women

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#18

“As a child, Michael never once heard anyone tell him “I love you.”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

tags: childhood-trauma, compassion, emotional-truth, healing, heart-tug, memoir, must-read, nonfiction, redemption, trauma-recovery

59 likes

#19

“If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion

tags: decisive, earlymedieval, militaryhistory, navalhistory, rulesofengagement, strategy

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#20

“It seemed to him the EPA, or the Earth Policy Administration, weren’t taking any chances.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: authority, conspiracy-energy, political-sci-fi, science-fiction, surveillance-vibes, tense-reads, world-building

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#21

“There is a wonderful saying that goes: ‘A person needs, on average, two years to learn to speak and then an entire lifetime to learn to be silent.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: innerpeace, listening, mindfulness, philosophicalfiction, silence, thepythagorean, wisdomquotes

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#22

“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: comfortably-numb, drugs, impending-doom

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#23

“Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what a fine thing it was to be victorious. “Victorious and dead,” some muttered, “is a poor sort of victory.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

tags: war-memorials

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#24

“Perhaps all men were moved against their will. A man ordered his life, and then an obscurity of circumstance sent him down a road that was not of his own desire or choosing. Something beyond a man’s immediate choice and will reached through the earth and stirred him. He did not see how any man might escape it.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under

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#25

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: life

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#26

“responsible”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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#27

“There are those who maintain,” said Sulla, stretching his arms above his head, “that a man makes his own luck.” Marius opened his eyes wide, an action which sent his eyebrows flying upward. “But of course! Still, isn’t it nice to know one has it?”
― Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome

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#28

“You’ve been kidding yourself about yourself for so long, you’re someone else. Your you is just a fragile fabrication. Every morning, you have to wake up, assemble this busy, dissembling monster, and get him or her on his or her feet again for another round of fantasy.”
― David Guterson, The Other

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