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    Claudia Clark
    “Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something to report on, but we have more than enough problems out there without manufacturing problems.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationship
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    Eli Wilde
    “I saw something sticking out of Sloan’s leg after he fell. I didn’t know what it was and didn’t want to ask. Maybe I thought we were the same inside as we are on the outside, a bit like a carrot or something like that.”
    ― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons
    tags: action, ai, danger, drama, dystopian, fantasy, horror
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    Ajay Agrawal
    “What will new AI technologies make so cheap? Prediction. Therefore, as economics tells us, not only are we going to start using a lot more prediction, but we are going to see it emerge in surprising new places.”
    ― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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    “Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get
across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent.
People are not conscious beings, just ask any marketer. Irrationality
of the early explorers, irrationality of the new ones, irrationality
of the place we go into. What a great canvas we have to paint on...”
    ― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever
    tags: africa, awareness, biography, explore, fascination, insight, memoir, raw, reflective, wild
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    Max Nowaz
    “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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    James Clavell
    “A new era requires clear thinking about the meaning of honor.”
    ― James Clavell, Shōgun
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    H.G. Wells
    “The time traveller proceeded, "any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thicknessa and Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimentions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
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    Lionel Shriver
    “Economics is closer to religion than science.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Astrid Lindgren
    “„Вашите собствени деца и внуци ли ви вдъхновиха, за да напишете книгите си?“ е също въпрос, който често ми задават. Искам да кажа следното: Никое друго дете не ме е вдъхновявало толкова, колкото детето, което аз самата бях. Не е задължително да имате деца, за да пишете детски книги. По-важното е добре да помните собственото си детство.”
    ― Астрид Линдгрен
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    Charles Dickens
    “But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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    K. Ritz
    “At what point does faith become insanity?”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit
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    Susan Rowland
    “Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, trauma, unpredictable
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    Thomas Hardy
    “She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play”
    ― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
    tags: acceptance, fate, powerlessness, serenity, surrender
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    Stieg Larsson
    “When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire
    tags: anger, emotion, feeling, heartbreak, love
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    Miguel Ruiz
    “Rule number two is more difficult: Don’t believe yourself. Don’t believe all the lies you tell yourself — all those lies that you never chose to believe, but were programmed to believe. Don’t believe yourself when you say you are not good enough, you are not strong enough, you are not intelligent enough. Don’t believe your own boundaries and limitations. Don’t believe you are unworthy of happiness or love. Don’t believe you are not beautiful. Don’t believe whatever makes you suffer. Don’t believe in your own drama.”
    ― Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    John Steinbeck
    “Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, hatred, understanding
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