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#1

“In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilitated and marshaled himself, despite severe pain, to press on with his career in politics. Eleven years later, delivering his message of confidence and optimism, he was elected President of the United States. ”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

tags: biogrphies, duty, history, international-affairs, military, naval, war, world-war, wwii

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#2

“I admire your beliefs Miss Zeldin, and rest assured… you could never offend me.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

tags: fiction, healing, historical-romance, hope, love, mystery, pain, passing, romance, understanding

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#3

“Black once tried to tackle a Humvee head-on. This was worse”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: destruction, fantasy, fast-paced, gripping, horror, intrigue, mystery, tense

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#4

“But the floor retained an unparalleled measure of excellence with a decorative array of ceramic tiles precisely laid by an anonymous Muslim artisan with limitless patience, pride, or skill. He left behind an ornate work of art in a short, squat, non-descript building near the most dangerous piece of real estate on the planet. Silva often wondered how an architect so careless came to work with a craftsman so precise. Looking at that floor, she often thought that if everyone applied just a fraction of his dedication to their own work, it might cancel out the hatred driving the destruction.”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

tags: dark, deception, drama, fast-paced, fiction, fight, history, insecurity, survival, war

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#5

“I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love—that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.”
― William S. Burroughs, With William Burroughs: A Report From The Bunker

tags: falling-in-love, love, love-as-a-western-concept, physical-attraction

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#6

“Не е вярно — помисли той. — Полусън в бавно гаснещата нощ. Как могат да бъдат верни думите, казани в тъмнина? Искрените слова искат много светлина.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

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#7

“Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

tags: history, ours, story

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#8

“No, Nezzie. No medicine can make him well,’ she replied in a firm voice that was tinged with sorrow.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters

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#9

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
― leo tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: life, reason

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#10

“To merge on the road you are meant to travel, means making a choice and then taking action.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

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#11

“How many kids are in the Graveyard?"
"A bunch."
"Who sends your supplies?"
"George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget."
"How often do you receive new arrivals?"
"About as often as you beat your wife.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

tags: humor, humorous, risa-ward, sarcasm, sarcastic, snark

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#12

“Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to  pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind?  Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction-writing, humour, mystery, thriller

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#13

“You begin to see things differently once you are dead.
Isaac Bonnyman”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: death-and-dying, ghosts, zombie

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#14

“Pistols went under the front seats, and she placed a diplomat certificate on the dashboard. They waited until the men went into the entrance, then trailed.”
― Karl Braungart, Triple Deception

tags: danger, escape, excitement, fiction, page-turner, terrorist, threat, thriller, war

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#15

“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: betrayal, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#16

“After March in 1945, the Japanese felt threatened by possibility of the people of Indochina rising against them. Therefore, they stated:
“We of the Imperial Japanese Army have only invaded other Asian countries in order to remove the European and American white man from Asia! Stick with us Japanese and together we shall make Asians great while we kick the whites out of the entire region!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: army, battles, death, determination, family, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, front-line, pilots, soldiers

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#17

“But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, evolution, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, love, love-story, treacherous

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#18

“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been debating over—certainly since the Great Depression—is what percentage of a society should be left in the hands of a deregulated market system. And absolutely there are people that are at the far other end of the spectrum that want to communalize all property and abolish private property, but in general the debate is not between capitalism and not capitalism, it's between what parts of the economy are not suitable to being decided by the profit motive. And I guess that comes from being Canadian, in a way, because we have more parts of our society that we've made a social contract to say, 'That's not a good place to have the profit motive govern.' Whereas in the United States, that idea is kind of absent from the discussion. So even something like firefighting—it seems hard for people make an argument that maybe the profit motive isn't something we want in the firefighting sector, because you don't want a market for fire. ”
― Naomi Klein

tags: capitalism

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#19

“If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forests of Avalon: Avalon Book 2

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#20

“The Three Laws of Robotics:

1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;

2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;

3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law;

The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

tags: laws-of-robotics, robots

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#21

“What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanatical killers?”
“A person’s senses are more acute when being hunted,” Reid said. “More adept at avoiding capture.”
These guys are good, Blake thought as a bead of sweat trickled down the small of his back. What have I gotten myself into?”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: action-packed, anticipation, entertaining, fascinating, fast-paced-thriller, government, humour, political-thriller, spy-novel

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#22

“Of course it didn’t make sense… knowledge was finite, imagination was not.”
― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

tags: action, ai-theme, drama, dystopian, machines, robotics, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology

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#23

“Being the World’s Most Powerful Leader is Easier Than You Think
One of my first executive orders was to impose a moratorium on any new federal government hiring. That got the “Incredible Shrinking Government” meal simmering. Veto stamps branded into any Congressional salary increase proposal added a certain singed aroma.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: female-presidents, governed, government, imaginative, leadership, politicians, practical, succinct, unique

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#24

“Trust is a strange bedfellow.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dramatic, dystopian, fiction, good-vs-evil, science-fiction, supremacist, war

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#25

“Jack, the world is full of people who can only feel big by making other people look small, and the bigger the target, the better they feel about it.”
― Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon

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#26

“He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

tags: time

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#27

“I made sure I let go of my past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life. I knew the black hole was out there, waiting to suck me in and forever control my destiny--but only if I let it. I took positive control over my life.
I'm so blessed. The challenges of the past made me immensely strong inside.”
― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

tags: inspirational

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#28

“That’s when it happened. So fast, in fact, that we didn’t even realize it had happened. All we knew was that one instant we were sitting at a lovely outdoor table toasting the beautiful day, and the next our table was on the move, crashing its way through the sea of other tables, banging into innocent bystanders, and making a horrible, ear-piercing, industrial-grade shriek as it scraped over the concrete pavers.”
― John Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

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#29

“LEBEAU: How about some solidarity with Gypsies? Just because they don’t work nine to five? WAITER—a small man, middle-aged, still wearing his apron: I know this one. I’ve made him go away a hundred times. He and his wife stand outside the café with a baby, and they beg. It’s not even their baby. LEBEAU: So what? They’ve still got a little imagination.”
― Arthur Miller, The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays

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#30

“I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.”

Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

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