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  • #1
    Karl Braungart
    “Captain Miller, we know that you are connected with military intelligence, and can obtain classified documents.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity
    tags: corps, drama, espionage, exciting, fiction, lies, military, secrets, thriller, us-v-corps
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: educational, entertaining, factual, indochina-war, insightful, political-dictatorship, united, unity, unrest, warring
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    Ajay Agrawal
    “the new wave of artificial intelligence does not actually bring us intelligence but instead a critical component of intelligence—prediction.”
    ― ajay agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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    Gina Buonaguro
    “One year from now, a decade, a century, half a millennium, will things be different? Dare we dream it? When we are seen for ourselves, not just as the conduit of progeny, heirs, lineage, not just as beautiful objects to be protected, inspected, appreciated, but for who we are at the core . . .”
    ― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
    tags: convent, fighting, justice, nuns, researched, sixteenth-century-venice, survival, venice, women-rights
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  • #5
    Eugene O'Neill
    “God damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap!”
    ― Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh
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    Iain Banks
    “Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.”
    ― Iain M. Banks, Matter
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    Michael Ende
    “There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
    tags: allan-bard, fairy-tales, fantasy, michael-ende
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  • #8
    Ammar Habib
    “When the masses are against you, when fear is on every side, and when it seems like you are standing alone, that is when you should stand the tallest. That is when you plant yourself like a mountain, and you do what your heart knows is right. Even if death will be your only reward.”
    ― Ammar Habib, The Heart of Aleppo: A Story of the Syrian Civil War
    tags: aleppo, civil-war, coming-of-age, syria, young-adult
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  • #9
    Sybrina Durant
    “You can tie them, Yes you can. Just take those laces in both hands. Loop and swoop and tie them off. You can show them who’s the boss.”
    ― Sybrina Durant, Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces
    tags: activity, children-s-book, children-s-fiction, children-s-illustrations, children-s-learning, children-s-picture-book, kids-activity-book, kids-book, kids-reading, picture-book
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    Robert Reid
    “The old man’s eyes sparked. “Elan of Ember, you I know, take me to your King.” He paused. “Now!” The old man spoke like a crack of thunder and red lightning flashed from his open hand. The portal gate beside Elan flashed with fire and disappeared. Without thought, Elan’s sword flew to his hand as he made towards the traveller. But again the red fire flashed. The sword glowed and like the gate, it was consumed by the fire. Elan collapsed, clutching the burnt fragments of his sword in his injured hand. “Take him to the King,” he grunted in pain. The guards did so without delay.”
    ― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire
    tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy
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  • #11
    “I gave up on any hope of redemption long ago. Hell, at this point I’m simply waiting to die. So, leave before you waste any more of your time. I can’t and frankly don’t deserve to help you… 
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    ― Cade Mengler, The Companions
    tags: action-adventure, coward, dark-horror, fear, memories, reality, relics, saving-the-world, trauma, warrior-prince
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    Susan Rowland
    “Mary dashed the rain from her eyes with a frozen hand. Was that a knife buried in the man’s chest with the blood seeping up around it? Doesn’t that mean he’s alive? Although with the blade at that angle, it can’t be for long. Colors swam in the water coating Mary’s vision. She rubbed her face, and with every shuttering breath, even before she could see his features, she knew her son, George, the son she had never met, was dead.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: action, adventure, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, investigation, mystery, thriller
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
    tags: captivating, facts, fiction, france, historical, human-history, king-edward, period, political-obstacles, researched
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    Max Nowaz
    “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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    Andri E. Elia
    “Is it still a fish cart when there’s no fish in it? When its false bottom is filled with children?”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: action, adventure, fantasy, fiction, intrigue, love, mystery, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, wizardry
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    Steven Decker
    “Well, thank you, Charles. Can I have another one of those for Aideen?”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel
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    Helen Fielding
    “it’s a bit like if we were on a planet where all the space creatures were short, green and fat. Except a very few of them were tall, thin and yellow. And all the advertising was of the tall, yellow ones, airbrushed to make them even taller and yellower. So all the little green space creatures spent their whole time feeling sad because they weren’t tall, thin and yellow.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Mad About the Boy
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Villette
    tags: double-life, happiness, negation, suffering
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  • #19
    “¿Cómo puedo sentirme tan miserable, turbada, humillada, apaleada, y
    hablar todavía, funcionar, sonreír y, concentrarme?”
    ― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
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    William Faulkner
    “It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.”
    ― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
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  • #21
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
    tags: knowledge, physicscs, science
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