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    Michael G. Kramer
    “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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    A.R. Merrydew
    “     ‘That has to be Mr Davis,’ Semilla said with an air of complete confidence as she stared at the inferno rising above the roof tops.
         ‘How can you be so certain?’ Burt questioned looking slightly pensive.
         Semilla gave a shrug. ‘Let’s face it he’s been in the vicinity of one or two little disasters lately.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: colony, dystopian, fiction, gripping, humour, life-forms, mystery, planets, sci-fi, unexpected
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    Ajay Agrawal
    “when your predictions are accurate enough—something happens. You cross a threshold where you should actually rethink your whole business model and product based on machine learning.…”
    ― Ajay Agrawal, Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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    Albert Waitt
    “If you didn't pay attention to the buoys and markers, you'd hit something.  Not enough people paid attention.  Our marinas were swamped with repairs.”
    ― Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village
    tags: detective, disappearance, drama, evil, good, mystery, police, search, traditional
    43 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: anne-of-windy-poplars, love
    51 likes

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    Rebecca Wells
    “How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?”
    ― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    tags: age, life
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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    “Maleness means war.”
    ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    tags: charlotte-perkins-gilman, feminism, gender, gender-critical, gender-critical-feminism, gender-criticism, radical-feminism
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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
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    Erich Segal
    “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
    ― Erich Segal
    tags: checked, love, quietly
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    Jane Smiley
    “If you lived in the same place long enough, everything reminded you of everything else.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Early Warning
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    Ralph Ellison
    “I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: inspirational
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    Ally Condie
    “I thought you had some kind of greater purpose," Vick says thoughtfully. "Gathering people to bring to the Rising. but you came into the Carving to save yourself and get back to the girl you're in love with. That's all."

    "That's all." I agree. He can think less of me if he wants.

    "Good enough," Vick says. "Good night.”
    ― Ally Condie, Crossed
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    Thomas Hardy
    “I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: inspirational-attitude
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    Azar Nafisi
    “Some within the government and some former revolutionaries had finally realized that there was no way the Islamic regime could make us intellectuals vanish. In forcing us underground, it had also made us more appealing, more dangerous and, in a strange way, more powerful. It had made us scarce and, because of this, also in demand.”
    ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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    Douglas Adams
    “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

    [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
    ― Douglas Adams
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