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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Meanwhile, the British had announced that they would leave all British bases east of Suez. That cause great concern to the Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies, who immediately went into discussion about this with cabinet ministers.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: documented, educational, entertaining, factual, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, veterans
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    Eli Wilde
    “I picked up a fallen branch and struck a tree with it. Apples fell from the tree. The rope around one of the skeletons gave way and it fell to the ground. It lay there, crumpled and bent in ridiculous angles. I wondered if the person who the skeleton used to live inside would be embarrassed if he or she could see themselves now. I looked around the area but didn’t see any ghosts. Why would I see a ghost? They didn’t exist. Still, I looked a second time.”
    ― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons
    tags: artificial-intelligence, coming-of-age, fantasy, friendship, future, graphic, love, romance, ya
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    Steven Decker
    “They came for me the next morning.”
    ― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind
    tags: action, child, danger, different-worlds, drama, excitement, literary, love, mothers-love, senses
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    Karen Hinton
    “The last few weeks of that summer, Janice lost interest in our conversations…. Her mind was taking her to other places, as though she was listening to a song or watching a movie or reading a book we could neither see nor hear.”
    ― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
    tags: biographies, biography, glass-ceiling, journalism, karen-hinton, memoir, penis-politic, political-leaders, revelatory, women-s-biographies
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    Max Nowaz
    “A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
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    Karl Braungart
    “Your long-term association with military intelligence is important. Let’s talk about what you might notice in them. Since this happened, one or two may have changed behavioral characteristics. Are there any with peculiarities different from when they started?”
    ― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity
    tags: cia, cic, conditioned, deployment, military-intelligence, russia, soldiers, spies, spy
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    Dean Mafako
    “They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?”
    ― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
    tags: action, burnout, children-s-hospital, drama, healthcare, humour, icu-setting, relationships, stress, trauma
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    Claudia Clark
    “Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
    ‘So eight years are coming to a close.  This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: calculation, european-history, goals, history, literary, marriage, personal-goals, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics
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    “There was no private ownership of land. "You could own a knife, or you could own a horse, but you couldn't own ground any more than you could own the sun or the wind. The Earth was their mother and part of the Cosmos given to all creatures by the Great Spirit.”
    ― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower
    tags: awareness, biographical, experience, journey, liberating, life, life-journey, love, reflective, spiritual
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    Aravind Adiga
    “If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I'm just a murderer!”
    ― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
    tags: democracy, gandhi, murder, pamphlet, sewage
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I see my beauty in you.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jacob Grimm
    “Come, people all! Poor and wretched, one and all! Blind and crippled though ye be, Mount your steeds or come by sea."   And”
    ― Jacob Grimm, Cinderella: The Ultimate Collection
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    C.S. Lewis
    “What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: belief, god, pain
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Each hour, Each day”
    ― Pablo Neruda, The Captain's Verses
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    David Sedaris
    “Don't tell me I don't know how to hate,' I wanted to say. Then I stopped and asked myself, 'Do you really want that to be your message? Think you can out-hate me, asshole? I was fucking hating people before you were even born!”
    ― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
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