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    Dean Mafako
    “I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart begin to race and I began to feel dizzy as my visual field became black. That is the last thing I recall before awakening to find myself lying on the ground in the front yard, with the handle of the rake resting on my chest.”
    ― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
    tags: heartfelt, helping-others, hospital-bureaucracy, humour, manipulation, medical, medical-drama, medical-fiction, overworked, passion
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    M.R. Noble
    “she told me to be my own hero. Inside of all of us was the potential for greatness—all it took was a change in perspective. “You can burn brighter than they can, if you have too.”
    ― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
    tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires
    76 likes

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    Max Nowaz
    “Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.”
“They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.”
But Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on
automatically. There was nobody there.
“What’s going…...” but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the
side of his head and everything went black.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, action-thriller-fiction, drama, fiction, intrigue, mystery, suspense, thriller
    431 likes

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    Karl Braungart
    “   “I have good news. The plan is a go. We can begin the project to get the nuclear energy discovery.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity
    tags: action, army, biotechnology, desire, espionage, intelligence, military, suspense, terrorist, war
    28 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!” the American Lieutenant General “Iron Mike” O’Daniel also shared that opinion.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: educational, entertaining, eterans, factual, indochina-war, insightful, leaders, political-dictatorship, united
    185 likes

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    Kim Edwards
    “She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.”
    ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
    tags: loneliness, love
    26 likes

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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair
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    Catherine Marshall
    “The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.”
    ― Catherine Marshall, Christy
    tags: alice-henderson, catherine-marshall, christy, christy-huddleston
    73 likes

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    Ransom Riggs
    “Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
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    Miguel Ruiz
    “Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.”
    ― Don Miguel Ruiz, Don Jose Ruiz
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “There must be a better way than to invade Germania!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
    tags: historyreaders, militarywisdom, realpolitik, restraint, romanhistory, strategy
    38 likes

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  • #12
    “If the onset of wrinkles in middle age were referred to as laughter lines, then to look at him, Scott thought, Twinkle's life must have been hilarious. He had sharp eyes that often seemed to visually contradict the lack of intelligence that could be derived from listening to him talk. There might not be a lot to respect in Twinkle, but Scott liked him. He just didn't want to end up like him.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: descriptive-prose, empathetic
    292 likes

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    Warren Kornblum
    “Tomorrow’s brands will not out-code each other. They will out-care each other.”
    ― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won
    tags: aiand-humanity, brand-leadership, care-wins, future-of-branding, human-brands, innovation, marketing-nonfiction, thought-leadership
    86 likes

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  • #14
    “Sometimes the smallest distance between two people is the hardest to cross.”
    ― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
    tags: bravery, character-voice, coming-of-age, fish-out-of-water, humor, new-skills, ranch-life, relatable-reads
    42 likes

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    Rich DiSilvio
    “Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio
    tags: inspirational, philosophy
    117 likes

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    George Critchlow
    “My reasons? Michael’s relationship with God is real whether or not God is the transcendent power represented in the Bible.”
    ― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
    tags: big-questions, book-club, compassion, faith-and-doubt, human-change, humility, open-mind, redemption, reflective-nonfiction, spiritual-memoir
    44 likes

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  • #17
    Sara Pascoe
    “Oh, for goodness’ sake… Get over yourself.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
    tags: character-growth, friendship, funny-dialogue, humor, kids-lit, life-lessons, middle-grade, talking-animals, tough-love
    42 likes

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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “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
    58 likes

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    Susan Rowland
    “Mary dashed the rain from her eyes with a frozen hand. Was that a knife buried in the man’s chest with the blood seeping up around it? Doesn’t that mean he’s alive? Although with the blade at that angle, it can’t be for long. Colors swam in the water coating Mary’s vision. She rubbed her face, and with every shuttering breath, even before she could see his features, she knew her son, George, the son she had never met, was dead.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: action, adventure, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, investigation, mystery, thriller
    333 likes

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  • #20
    “People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall
    478 likes

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    Anastasia Pash
    “A base wardrobe is an ensemble of elegantly simple, neutral-hued pieces free of intricate cuts, lavish embellishments, or overpowering prints.”
    ― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules
    tags: capsule-wardrobe, classic-style, minimalist-style, neutral-palette, packing-smarter, timeless-fashion, wardrobe-basics
    34 likes

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    Mario Puzo
    “The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then.”
    ― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
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    Robert Ludlum
    “Stop it! Do not think of things that … you cannot think about. Concentrate on what is. Now. You. Not what others say you are—not even what you may think you are. Only the now. And the now is a man who can give you answers.”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
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    Solomon Northup
    “in”
    ― Solomon Northup, 12 Years a Slave
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    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    “I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;”
    ― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
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    Alan Moore
    “We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
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  • #27
    Ray Bradbury
    “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: inspirational
    126 likes



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