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    Ajay Agrawal
    “We are narrow thinkers, we are noisy thinkers, and it is very easy to improve upon us.”
    ― ajay agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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    Karl Braungart
    “Remmich’s subconscious mind is controlled by us. He will get what we want.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity
    tags: cic, conditioned, deployment, intrigue, lies, military-intelligence, russia, soldiers, spies, spy
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    Karen Hinton
    “…I was finding that reporting the news wasn't enough. I wanted to be more than just a paid observer. I wanted to be in the fight. I got my chance.”
    ― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
    tags: biography, coming-of-age, conversational, fall, glass-ceiling, illuminate, karen-hinton, moral-failures, rise, surreal
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “    The weapon gave a rusty croak. ‘I don’t normally do weather reports anymore,’ the gun informed him politely.
         ‘Why is that?’
         ‘Ever since the demise of the old metropolis, there has been no control of the weather systems. Anyone who would have appreciated a weather forecast perished an awful long time ago. Besides, every time I started to inform my potential victims of the current cloud formations, or wind velocity, or barometric pressure, or potential precipitation, they simply ran away.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: fiction, hi-tech, inventions, love, mystery, past, plot-turns, science, twists
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    Steven Decker
    “Trust me Dani. You don’t want’a miss this. I’m not exaggeratin’ when I say the journey of a lifetime, of a hundred lifetimes, is just below us!”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain
    tags: adventure, compelling, complex, future, lies, past, science, science-fiction, time-chain, truth
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    Patrick G. Cox
    “He doesn’t look a violent type—so polite, and so patrician. You never hear him raise his voice.”
    She thought about it. “No, you don’t, do you?” It struck her that the Captain exuded an air of quiet command. His ‘orders’ were always delivered in polite terms, but very few people made the mistake of not carrying them out immediately. “I expect he doesn’t usually have to though.” She laughed. “You don’t get appointed to command a ship like the Vanguard unless you know how to get people to do what you want them to.”
    ― Patrick G Cox, First into the Fray
    tags: action, conflict, drama, espionage, fast-paced, imagination, sci-fi, science-fiction, super-hero, suspensful
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    Dean Mafako
    “I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart begin to race and I began to feel dizzy as my visual field became black. That is the last thing I recall before awakening to find myself lying on the ground in the front yard, with the handle of the rake resting on my chest.”
    ― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
    tags: heartfelt, helping-others, hospital-bureaucracy, humour, manipulation, medical, medical-drama, medical-fiction, overworked, passion
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    Eli Wilde
    “I kept the speed at a steady hundred. We didn’t need to go any faster. When you are ugly you don’t need to go any faster than one hundred miles an hour. All you need to do is find someone as ugly as yourself and take them to the beach. That way, there are no expectations, and without expectations, no disappointment. And that’s as close to love anyone who is ugly should ever get.”
    ― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons
    tags: dark, different-world, enemies, evolution, fantasy, fight, literary-fiction, survival, tense
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    Katherine Dunn
    “A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”
    ― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
    tags: freaks
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I really couldn't see what the Socs would have to sweat about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky.
    I know better now.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: happiness, the-outsiders, worries
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    Karl Marx
    “This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid labour seems to be paid labour. With the slave, on the contrary, even that part of his labour which is paid appears to be unpaid. Of course, in order to work the slave must live, and one part of his working day goes to replace the value of his own maintenance. But since no bargain is struck between him and his master, and no acts of selling and buying are going on between the two parties, all his labour seems to be given away for nothing.”
    ― Karl Marx, Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
    tags: capitalism, karl-marx, labor-theory-of-value, marx, marxian-economics, marxism, slavery, wage-labor
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    T.H. White
    “Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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    Richard Matheson
    “Does a man’s existence change in any way when he removes his overcoat? Neither does it change when death removes the overcoat of his body. He’s still the same person. No wiser. No happier. No better off. Exactly the same. “Death is merely continuation at another level.”
    ― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
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    Gayle Forman
    “I was here.”
    ― Gayle Forman, I Was Here
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    Carl Bernstein
    “The president and his aides, Ervin answered, had “a lust for political power.” That lust, he explained, “blinded them to ethical considerations and legal requirements; to Aristotle’s aphorism that the good of man must be the end of politics.” Nixon had lost his moral authority as president. His secret tapes—and what they reveal—will probably be his most lasting legacy. On them, he is heard talking almost endlessly about what would be good for him, his place in history, and, above all, his grudges, animosities, and schemes for revenge. The dog that never seems to bark is any discussion of what is good and necessary for the well-being of the nation.”
    ― Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men
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    Gary Chapman
    “Remember, love is the attitude that wishes good things for the other person. Do you desire the best possible life for your mom and dad for the rest of their years?” “Yes,” Brian said. “Then ‘I love you’ is a true statement.”
    ― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages: Singles Edition
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    Neal Stephenson
    “Boredom is a mask frustration wears.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Anathem
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
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    Thomas Harris
    “He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
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    James McBride
    “You could see him coming from a distance, appearing out of nowhere like an angel, his silhouette seeming to rise from the ground in the simmering heat . . .”
    ― James McBride, The Color of Water
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