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#1

“US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”

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

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

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#2

“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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#3

“In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: american-history, diplomacy, european-history, history, international, literary, politics, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics

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#4

“Because the beings from that planet are now circling Earth in a ship the size of a small moon, threatening to destroy all human life if we don’t cooperate.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: action, dark, different-worlds, drama, fascinating, literary, love, mysterious, mystery, rules

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#5

“I had a separate meeting with Directors Montgomery and Black. We discussed terrorists infiltrating the country. As you know, there are ten scientists from the Middle East taking part in the biotechnology project. I don’t want to take any chances about one or more of them being part of a terrorist group. We don’t need this lab center and people incinerated.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: desire, drama, favorites, fiction, hunted, illicit, literary, suspense-thriller, suspicion

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#6

“I kept the speed at a steady hundred. We didn’t need to go any faster. When you are ugly you don’t need to go any faster than one hundred miles an hour. All you need to do is find someone as ugly as yourself and take them to the beach. That way, there are no expectations, and without expectations, no disappointment. And that’s as close to love anyone who is ugly should ever get.”
― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons

tags: dark, different-world, enemies, evolution, fantasy, fight, literary-fiction, survival, tense

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#7

“Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

tags: biography, dreams, events, journey, life, life-journey, memoir, travel, true

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#8

“The reality is that the lives of the smallest patients are in our hands, and their clinical condition can change in an instant. No matter how many times you are involved in situations such as this, the physical stress and anxiety as well as the emotional and psychological effects of being immersed in that environment are dramatic and lasting on the human body, mind, and central nervous system. These effects are severe, and I firmly believe that they are cumulative over your lifetime.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, doctors, family-life, fiction, health, patients, realistic, ruin, strife

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#9

“THE fourteenth of April, 1775.”
― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

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#10

“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”
― GLADWELL MALCOM, Outliers: The Story of Success

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#11

“Here’s the thing about Cricket Bell. You can’t NOT notice him when he walks into a room. The first thing that registers is his height, but it’s quickly followed by recognition of his energy. He moves gracefully like his sister, but with an enthusiasm he can’t quite control- the constantly moving body, hands, feet. He’s been subdued the last few times I’ve seen him, but he’s fully revived now.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

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#12

“إن أسوأ الأمور عندنا نحن بني آدم أن نفقد شيئا غاليا علينا , إنه أسوأ من أن لا نملكه أصلا”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

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#13

“Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.”
― francine Rivers

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#14

“Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, curses, enchanting, fiction, intrigue, magic, magical, unpredictable, ya-litterature

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#15

“I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to stop.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, drama, fiction, genetics, love, political, sci-fi, science-fiction, supremacist, war

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#16

“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”
― Michael Crichton, Disclosure

tags: psychology

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#17

“Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: justification, power, wisdom-in-war

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#18

“Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence,
without you moving, slicing the noon
like a blue flower, without you walking
later through the fog and the cobbles,
without the light you carry in your hand,
golden, which maybe others will not see,
which maybe no one knew was growing
like the red beginnings of a rose.
In short, without your presence: without your coming
suddenly, incitingly, to know my life,
gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind:
since then I am because you are,
since then you are, I am, we are,
and through love I will be, you will be, we will be.”
― Pablo Neruda

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#19

“Хората, живеещи в пределите на цивилизацията, по правило не са сред най-изтънчените и космополитни човешки същества. Често са необразовани и не са в крак с модата и актуалните световни събития. Не са особено изискани, а понякога не са и дружелюбни. Но хората, които живеят в края на пътя, са сред най-жилавите и находчиви човешки същества, които можете да срещнете. Те се отличават с необикновено съчетание от храброст, твърдост, гостоприемство и състрадание, което предизвиква у мен истинско преклонение.”
― Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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#20

“The only thing that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries”
― Dean Koontz, Innocence

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