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#1

“In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

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

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#2

“Sir, I think you need to read this,’ he said, nervously handing over the mainframe’s dissertation of its own wellbeing.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: action, drama, fiction, hi-tech, inventions, love, mystery, past, science, twists

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#3

“A star becomes a sun, under the pressure of darkness.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires

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#4

“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?” “You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.” “You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him. He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, favourite-books, suspense, thriller, thriller-writing

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#5

“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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#6

“Así es la vida, nunca le sacarás todo el partido a lo que te ha tocado si no lo aceptas”
― Bernhard Schlink, Olga

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#7

“Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”
― Edith Wharton

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#8

“Seek and embrace peace. We all deserve a tranquil existence.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: acceptance, accomplish, ambition, be-happy, believe, change, cherish, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, leadership

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#9

“Which in the gray of gentler eyes will prove far more than any of us could ever need; 'enough' we will shout, 'enough!' our bellies full, our hearts full, our ages full; fullness and greater fullness and even more fullness; how then we will laugh and forget how imagining has already left us.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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#10

“If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
― Nikolas Schreck

tags: left-hand-path, magic, occult, paganism, sex-magick

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#11

“and June burst over the mountain. It smelled good, tasted good, and was gentle to the eyes.”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

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#12

“Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)”
― Eve Ensler, The Good Body

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#13

“I mean, did you ever hear of Wikipedia? It’s free, douchebag.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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#14

“رأت أنه لا يمكن العيش دون التساؤل عن الأصول، على الأقل .
من الذي سحب صوفي من حياتها الهادئة ليضعها أمام أحاجي الكون الكبرى؟ ”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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#15

“I fear that in New York State, the electrical chair is increasingly usurping the gallows, Mr. Wolff,” he said evenly. “Although I suspect that, based on your answers to my questions, you will find that out for yourself. God have mercy on you, sir.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

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#16

“It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: humour, united-states, ussr

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#17

“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passing of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark... I hoard all these letters like treasure.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

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#18

“Swim, crawl, stagger, walk, bend, stagger and gone – that’s life in simple terms, and all that matters here is how well we fought.”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

tags: inspirational-quotes, motivational-quotes

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#19

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: fiction-novel, murder, past-experiences, personal-relationships, power, psychological, tense, thriller

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#20

“The hair on the back of her neck was tingling, and she felt like someone was watching her. She knew she was alone as the locker room was silent.”
― Hope Worthington, Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, magic, teen

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#21

“One last piece of advice."
"What's that?" I ready my pencil and paper.
"Don't take no for an answer." She wags a finger at me. "Never take no for an answer, and they will learn to respect you.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

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#22

“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: advanced, bloodshed, drama, exciting, fiction, genetics, lovers, political, supremacist, thrilling

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#23

“Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother. She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze. She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, historical-romance, historical-victorian-romance, history, love, passion, romance, torment, victorian-romance

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#24

“As we raise our vibrations through awareness of our true being, our energy field expands in radiance and beauty. Our awareness also expands with our energy field, and we become more intuitive and telepathic. We become more heart-centered in our personal relationships and with ourselves.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: awareness, cosmos, energy-flow, quantum-entanglement, quantum-realm, space-and-time, subatomic-particles, universal-conciousness, universal-energy, unseen-energies

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#25

“While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’” “‘It’s history, my boy.’” “The grandson comes nearer and exclaims, “‘But this is a porno site, grandpa, naked chicks, sex . . . a lot of sex!’” “‘Well, it’s sex for you, my son, but for me it’s history,’ the old man says with a sigh.” All of people in the cabin burst into laughter. “A stale joke, but a cool one,” added William More, the man who just told the joke. The navigator skillfully guided the flying disc among the dense orange-yellow blanket of clouds in the upper atmosphere that they had just entered. Some of the clouds were touched with a brownish hue at the edges. The rest of the pilots gazed curiously and intently outwards while taking their seats. The flying saucer descended slowly, the navigator’s actions exhibiting confidence. He glanced over at the readings on the monitors below the transparent console: Atmosphere: Dense, 370 miles thick, 98.4% nitrogen, 1.4% methane Temperature on the surface: ‒179°C / ‒290°F Density: 1.88 g/cm³ Gravity: 86% of Earth’s Diameter of the cosmic body: 3200 miles / 5150 km.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

tags: action, adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction

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#26

“I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a 'juvenile delinquent.' But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

tags: duty

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#27

“What remains to be done must be done by you; since in order not to deprive us of our free will and such share of glory as belongs to us, God will not do everything himself.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: agency, exultation, free-will, god

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#28

“Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: commitment, marriage

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#29

“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love, relationships, sadness

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#30

“Lucy Ashton, in short, was involved in those mazes of the imagination which are most dangerous to the young and the sensitive. Time, it is true, absence, change of place and of face, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance as it has done in many others.”
― Sir Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord. Incl: The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian, The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, Count Robert of Paris & Castle Dangerous.

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