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#1

“This can only be an urgent call at this late hour.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: biotechnology, diplomat, iran, middle-east, nuclear, scientists, suspense, suspicion, war

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#2

“Finch turned around. The slap of his bare feet on the bare floorboards as he walked to the door reminded me of the heartbeat of someone beaten down by life. Finch wasn’t beaten down yet, but his feet thought he was.”
― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons

tags: brutal, coming-of-age, compassion, destruction, dystopian, horror, imagination, magical, mystery, raw

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#3

“     ‘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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#4

“I don’t think so, said the captain. Their ship is clearly outfitted with weapons systems that it did not have when it left Terrene over 600 years ago. And they are pointed directly at us.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: action, contemporary, death, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, past

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#5

“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

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#6

“We are narrow thinkers, we are noisy thinkers, and it is very easy to improve upon us.”
― ajay agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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#7

“To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life.”
― Emma Donoghue, Haven

tags: travel

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#8

“Every man does have a star. the star of one's honesty. and you spend your life groping for it, but once its out it never lights again.”
― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge / All My Sons

tags: dr-jim-bayliss

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#9

“Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: art

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#10

“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: life, perfectionism, self, self-awareness, souls

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#11

“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: haruki-murakami, karma, life

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#12

“With wild eyes that had seen freedom.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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