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    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “The family discussed some of the things they could do to stop the forest from being cut down. They talked about making flyers and delivering them in the neighbourhood.”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: eco-consciousness, emotional-impact, emotional-intelligence, gratitude, kindness-matters, life-energy, personal-growth, playful-exploration, storytelling, teaching-respect
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    Max Nowaz
    “Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like
most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes. 
“No, I lived there for a while.” 
“Did you enjoy your stay?”
“Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.”
“Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a
cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.”
“You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the
population.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction, mystery, thriller
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    “It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the best at anything you do in life.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: encouraging, experiences, hopeful, life, life-skills, motivating, reality, self-healing, wisdom, wise
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war
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    “In the rose garden, the flowers are maneuvering toward the winter sunshine and the alluring sound of the koi pond’s waterfall makes you think it has a crush on you. You offer no resistance—you are done (at least temporarily) with the “regular” world.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: deep, descriptive, fiction, love, make-believe, meaningful, nature, refreshing, romance, self-reflecting
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    Shafter Bailey
    “Cindy Divine and her parents paused by their boat to take in the natural beauty. Lake Barkley could have been a top-paid model for a glossy postcard company that morning. It lay between little hills all dressed up in new green, and its mirror-like water reflected a cloudless sky everywhere except along the shoreline where the hills were upside down. Clusters of blossoms, dogwood and redbud, were scattered here and there on the hillsides, and a brightening red was coloring the sky along the eastern hilltops.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings
    tags: abuse, childhood, courage, courtroom-drama, guardian-angel, hope, inspirational, miracles, overcoming-trauma, resilience
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    James Dashner
    “The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.”
    ― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
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    Dave Cullen
    “Our best asset is time. These boys don’t “snap,” they smolder.”
    ― Dave Cullen, Columbine
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    Walter Isaacson
    “Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
    tags: creativity, influence
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    Laura Hillenbrand
    “The crash of Green Hornet had left Louie and Phil in the most desperate physical extremity, without food, water, or shelter. But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity.”
    ― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: emptiness, normalcy, numbness, stillness
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    T.H. White
    “He had conquered murder, to be faced with war. There were no Laws for that.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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