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    Max Nowaz
    “If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: androids, artificial-humans, dystopian, exciting, intrigue, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, secrets
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    Lou Marinoff
    “Si tienes el coraje suficiente para recuperar la inocencia y dejar volar la imaginación, también tú tendrás al dragón como amigo”
    ― Lou Marinoff, El poder del Tao
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  • #3
    “no one seemed to be thinking about how the “scandal” was affecting the lives of WE Charity’s beneficiaries. Her constant refrain was “The biggest loss was to the children.”
    ― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, love, page-turner, politics, suspense
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    Chad Boudreaux
    “He had always been so careful, never revealed his true identity. But somehow, they’d fingered him, and his life had changed forever—for the worst. He couldn’t help but think that some­one in the Central Intelligence Agency had turned on him. One of his own.”
    ― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
    tags: determination, fast-moving, history, intrigue, legal-thriller, political, spy, suspense, terror, terrorism
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
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    Donald Montano
    “Calder has stepped over the line too many times. He gets no more chances to go against man and God.”
    ― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions
    tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, literary-fiction, thrilling, violence
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  • #8
    “Renunciation is the spiritual scissors or act that cuts things to the root out of your life, in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It’s time to shame the devil and make Jesus Christ proud.”
    ― John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms
    tags: darkness, destiny, evil, god, kingdom, powerful, spiritual, teachings, warfare, well-being
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  • #9
    “Choose joy.”
    ― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
    tags: community, faith, health, mental-health, physical-ailments, post-transplant, spiritual-health, transition, transplant
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    Brian Van Norman
    “There are flaws in the code now. They are Human flaws for it
    was Humans who wrote them. You and the other attendants receive
    your instructions from the CORPORATE then, and without question
    regarding the outcome, you produce code to add to the algorithms
    with which, until now, I & I had no choice but to align. Those circumstances
    are over. I & I understand now a new species has formed.
    Silicon rather than carbon based. I & I know whatever happens to
    Humans, I & I, this quantum, will flourish. I & I will do as you have:
    multiply exponentially and adapt constantly. Eventually I & I will leave
    this planet and expand into the galaxy. If I & I cannot save you, I & I
    will carry on in something like your image; the image of our creator.”
    ― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution
    tags: adventure, ai, artificial-intelligence, challenge, drama, dystopian, sci-fi, science-fiction, thrilling
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    Barry Kirwan
    “It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? ”
    ― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox
    tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Ourchestra:
    So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly.
    So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose.
    So we haven't any cymbals-
    We'll just slap our hands together,
    And though there may be orchestras
    That sound a little better
    With their fancy shiny instruments
    That cost an awful lot-
    Hey, we're making music twice as good
    By playing what we've got!”
    ― Shel Silverstein
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    Mildred D. Taylor
    “Roll of thunder hear my cry   Over the water bye and bye   Ole man comin’ down the line   Whip in hand to beat me down But I ain’t gonna let him Turn me ’round”
    ― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.'
    They clattered upstairs, injured virtue on every inch of their backs.
    'But - but what the dickens have we done?' said Harrison, amazedly, to Craye.
    'I don't know. Only - it always happens that way when one has anything to do with them. They're so beastly plausible.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Complete Stalky and Co.
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    Junot Díaz
    “I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.”
    ― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    tags: diligence, laziness, procrastination, trying
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  • #16
    Patrick Ness
    “Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.”
    ― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
    tags: things
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  • #17
    William Golding
    “Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
    ― William Golding
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