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    “The only way I knew how to live the best day ever was on an expedition.”
    ― Hendri Coetzee
    tags: dare-to-dream, determination, difficulty, explorer, grit, hope, inspiring, life-goals, travel
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    Ajay Agrawal
    “when your predictions are accurate enough—something happens. You cross a threshold where you should actually rethink your whole business model and product based on machine learning.…”
    ― Ajay Agrawal, Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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    Max Nowaz
    “Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
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    Karl Braungart
    “I was told you are carrying around a USB. Is there classified information on it?”
    ― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity
    tags: action, assignment, drama, espionage, exciting, fiction, thriller, us-v-corps, war
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    Karen Hinton
    “The last few weeks of that summer, Janice lost interest in our conversations…. Her mind was taking her to other places, as though she was listening to a song or watching a movie or reading a book we could neither see nor hear.”
    ― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
    tags: biographies, biography, glass-ceiling, journalism, karen-hinton, memoir, penis-politic, political-leaders, revelatory, women-s-biographies
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    Kyle Keyes
    “Somehow, creation manages to form without species intervention.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations
    tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Un jour, j'ai vu le soleil se coucher quarante-trois fois!»
    Et un peu plus tard tu ajoutais:
    «Tu sais... quand on est tellement triste on aime les couchers de soleil...
    - Le jour des quarante-trois fois tu étais donc tellement triste?
    Mais le petit prince ne répondit pas.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince
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    Louis Sachar
    “Todd”
    ― Louis Sachar, Wayside School 3-Book Collection: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Wayside School Is Falling Down, Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
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    Herman Melville
    “In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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    John Berendt
    “You mustn’t be taken in by the moonlight and magnolias. There’s more to Savannah than that. Things can get very murky.”
    ― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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    Jung Chang
    “It was Cixi who championed women’s liberation in a culture that had for centuries imposed foot-binding on its female population-a practice to which she put an end.”
    ― Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
    tags: cixi
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