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#1

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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#2

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: war

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#3

“We want to use your two army officers who dealt with Mideast spy tactics, including drugging, hypnotism, and espionage. If we do this, gentlemen, they will be far away in New Mexico. Now, it’s up to the FBI.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: conspiracy, crime, desire, espionage, favorites, fiction, military, success, suspense-thriller, thriller

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#4

“We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

tags: convent, courage, love, nuns, risk, romance, secrets, sisters, sixteenth-century-venice, survival

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#5

“He had never heard anything quite as amazing as that voice. She talked as if she was continuously on the verge of breaking into giggles. And when she giggled she sounded the way Ove imagined champagne bubbles would have sounded if they were capable of laughter.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

tags: laughter, love

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#6

“there is always something fundamentally wrong with a rich man or a king who pretends to be religious. Let the poor and helpless invoke the gods. That is what the gods are for—to distract the attention of the weak from their otherwise intolerable miseries. When an emperor makes much ado about religion, he is either cracked or crooked.”
― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

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#7

“Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.”
― Jodi Picoult

tags: silence

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#8

“for a Christmas present. They read it just after they had hung up their stockings before one of the big fireplaces in their house. Afterward, they learned it,”
― Clement C. Moore, The Night Before Christmas

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#9

“I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and how hard and wide his chest was and how hot his kiss was, and I got outside and feed the chickens. They are getting mighty fat.”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

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#10

“Sidda sank down into the wide flannel embrace of their bodies, and she rested. For a moment she died a little death, they died it together.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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#11

“At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama,’ and an overly ambitious Obama, who perhaps thought that was his cue, headed toward the podium. Perhaps catching the president’s movement out of the corner of her eye, Merkel thought quickly, and without even looking up from her notes, she told the excited American president, in English, ‘Not yet, dear Mr. President, dear Barack Obama.’ Obama sheepishly returned to his seat to allow the chancellor to finish her speech.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

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

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#12

“One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them what can be done, together.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

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

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#13

“Some people say
Rhyming is but a sin.
Little sins are fun
So try, before you bin.”
― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream

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#14

“ “Bad news. The Egyptians have left Bogotá on one of six American Airlines’ flights. Steve, I lost them.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: biotechnology, desire, iran, middle-east, military, nuclear, scientists, suspense, war

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#15

“He said, “Sir, we are in a very bad position! We have lost many soldiers KIA (Killed in Action) and many more are wounded. Sir, today is the twenty third of March, and I suggest that we get the hell out of the entire Hoa Binh area before we all end up as dead men!”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: death, documented, kia, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#16

“A good friend doesn't let you do stupid things .... alone.”
― Grimm

tags: friendship

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#17

“Listen to me Igraine,' said the Merlin. 'I fathered you, though that gives me no rights; it is the blood of the Lady which confers royalty, and you are of the oldest royal blood, descended from daughter to daughter of the Holy Isle.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

tags: p-16, the-mists-of-avalon

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#18

“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

tags: family, past

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#19

“I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a preemptive strike against the French by launching “Operation Bright Moon”, which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ětat which will disarm the Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!”

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

tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war

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#20

“Hey Boo.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#21

“You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.”
― Pat Conroy, South of Broad

tags: encouragement, happiness, leadership

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#22

“Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust.

Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.”
― Dave Pelzer Help Yourself

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#23

“Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitudes. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. We may have loved, but never well enough. We never truly knew ourselves. We forgot the world; now it has forgotten us.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

tags: cheat, environmentalism, genocide, greed, lie, murder, selfishness, war

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#24

“And believe it or not, we did end up going to the bottom of the ocean, just not for the reasons I had wanted to go there in the first place.”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: action, dark, fascinating, fast-paced, fear, gripping, love, mysterious, mystery, rules

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#25

“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is the same thing – the usefully for the stronger” (Plato, The Republic).”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, class-inequality, democrats, dictatorship, oppression, political, political-system, scientific-socialism, socialism, unity

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#26

“And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to headquarters. Raya heard a loud popping sound in her mind, like a huge rubber band being snapped, like a glider plane released from a Piper Cub.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#27

“God’s people must be free!”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: change, determination, devoted, faith, freedom, god, growth, heal, learn, peace

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#28

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma

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#29

“The beautiful stranger cuddled Cindy, and she rocked the chair slightly as she spoke softly to her. “Suicide is a problem, not a solution. Humans you love would be hurt deeply if you left them. Becky Johnson and her parents would be crushed. Your grandparents in Florida never forget to mention your name in their evening prayers. I have loved you before and since your first heartbeat. Your father loves you. He will be rightfully proud when I tell him about your brave attempt to protect Pretty Boy.”
“You will speak to Daddy?”
“I will.”
“Please, may I know? Who are you?”
“I am your guardian angel, Cindy.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

tags: childhood-trauma, cultural-impact, faith-in-humanity, fortitude, government, inspirational-journey, miracles-of-life, national-recognition, power-of-one, rebuilding-life

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#30

“The workers went along with the Nazis, the Church stood by and watched, the middle classes were too cowardly to do anything, and so were the leading intellectuals. We allowed the unions to be abolished, the various religious denominations to be suppressed, there was no freedom of speech in the press or on the radio. Finally we let ourselves be driven into war. We were content for Germany to do without democratic representation and put up with pseudo-representation by people with no real say in anything. Ideals can’t be betrayed with impunity, and now we must all take the consequences.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

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