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    Shafter Bailey
    “Private Detective, John Ballou, opened his glove compartment and took out his Colt 45 thinking an ex-con might be setting him up to settle an old score. He checked the bullet clip and slipped the powerful pistol into his coat pocket.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
    tags: american-history, classroom-reform, educational-debates, inspirational-leaders, leadership-ethics, practical-reform, principled-leadership, professional-dedication, rural-education, societal-ethics
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    “I knew exactly what kind of effort I was going to need to get where I wanted to go.”
    ― Vernon Davis
    tags: experiences, family, influence, journey, life, love, management, motivating, resilience, self-healing
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    Lotchie Burton
    “You arrogant, insufferable asshole; you scared me to death. If I hadn’t been so afraid that you were already dead, I’d have killed you myself.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: danger, dark, drama, erotica, exciting, fear, fiction, love, romance, violence
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    “There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the animals adds to the safety and rescue aspects of the ashram. The ashram’s pristine environment along with
its celibacy policy and abundance of food is like a Garden of Eden. Like starting over! You forget about sex and spending your whole paycheck on organic apples.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: fiction, god, hope, journey, life, nature, relateable, soul-healing, values
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    J. Rose Black
    “Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of the eyes, his mind, when adrenaline hit his system. But she glowed. Vivid. Alive. And for a moment, he’d have given anything to be like her.”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: compelling, drama, friends, friendship, humorous-fiction, journey, romantic-comedy, romcom, steamy-romance, suspensful
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    Steven Decker
    “The calming presence of the forest merged with the beating hearts of the human beings, each of whom was emanating the same peaceful energy that Emily was feeling. This is magical, she thought. I could live my life doing this. And then the moment passed.”
    ― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale
    tags: adventure, compelling, courage, dreams, emotional, fiction, reality, romance, seeking, survivor
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    Sara Pascoe
    “She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: action, drama, fantasy, fiction, iction, paranormal, teen-ya, urban
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “I said to Hun Sen, “Thank you, Hun! You have also told me that there was a kidnapping incident which almost bankrupted your family! Can you please elaborate upon that?”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: army, band-of-brothers, family, front-line, guns, love, loyalty, military-budget, pilots
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    Madeline Miller
    “It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    “They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and womanly.”
    ― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
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    Edward Abbey
    “They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
    tags: arizona, capitalism, economy, new-mexico
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classroom-reform
educational-debates
inspirational-leaders
leadership-ethics
practical-reform
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professional-dedication
rural-education
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