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#1

“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: exquisite, governance, historical, history, justice, political-intrigue, realistic, romance, vibrant

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#2

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#3

“Kowkosvki? You handling this?”
“I am.”
The suit turned and stared at me with his dark eyes. “Detective Hayden. I take it you’re the shooter?”
“I am.”
“And you are?”
“Jack Ludefance. I’m a PI hired by Mr. Kingsley to investigate the murder of Professor Zambear.”
“Oh, yeah, I heard about you. Who’s in the bedroom?”
“Rudy Orkut. My computer tech.”
“Computer tech, huh? Any idea who this dead body is?”
“Not a clue.”
― Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance

tags: action, adventure, computer, crime, dramatic, murder, mystery, suspense-novel, tense, thriller

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#4

“Cognitive robotics can integrate information from pre-operation medical records with real-time operating metrics to guide and enhance the precision of physicians’ instruments. By processing data from genuine surgical experiences, they’re able to provide new and improved insights and techniques. These kinds of improvements can improve patient outcomes and boost trust in AI throughout the surgery. Robotics can lead to a 21% reduction in length of stay.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: balance, education, educational, help, improvement, learning, obstacles, past, present, treatment

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#5

“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: advanced, bloodshed, drama, exciting, fiction, genetics, lovers, political, supremacist, thrilling

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#6

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#7

“Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others. Yes, we always pay for them, and sometimes the smallest indiscretions cost as much as the largest.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Fire in the Blood

tags: folly

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#8

“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song.

For whom?

You are loved.”
― David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair

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#9

“It’s not how fast you go but how far you go fast.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, Mid Ocean

tags: blow, drugs-marijuana, smuggling

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#10

“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: intellectual-freedom

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#11

“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: jace, mortal-instruments

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#12

“My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.”
― Pat Conroy

tags: inspirational

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#13

“There ain't nothing gets a Yankee madder than a smart colored person, of which I reckon they figured there was only one in the world, Mr. Douglass.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

tags: african-americans, blacks, frederick-douglass, intelligence, race-relations, whites

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#14

“You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.”
― Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

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#15

“I, too, like the sound of the rain on the roof. I also like the lightning. It's like some great cosmic flashlight. It makes me think that someone is searching for me. And I don't mind the BAM of thunder because that makes me think that, perhaps, I have been found. That's the way a good book makes me feel, as if I have been found, understood, seen. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here”
― Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo

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#16

“Animals are unpredictable things so our whole life is unpredictable. It’s a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you’ve got to really like it to stick it.”
― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful / All Things Wise and Wonderful: Three James Herriot Classics

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#17

“Then I'm sorry I don't remember more. If we kew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

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#18

“In my world it’s different; when you die, that’s it, kaboosh, fin, over, the end.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique

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#19

“chart. Everything he had heard about this teacher was true—don’t mess around with The Lone Granger.”
― Andrew Clements, Frindle

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#20

“I have no passion for groves and valleys. The rooms where I was born, the furniture which has been before my eyes all my life, a bookcase which has followed me about like a faithful dog wherever I have moved – old chairs, old streets, squares where I have sunned myself, my old school – have I not enough, without your Mountains? I do not envy you. I should pity you, did I not know, that the Mind will make friends of any thing.’ A mind that can ‘make friends of any thing’ – I thought of that often during the war.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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#21

“sisters,”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

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#22

“The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

tags: change, humor

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#23

“His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition

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#24

“Symbols shmimbols. Sure they're important but... Well look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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#25

“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.”
― Richard Dawkins

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#26

“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. Mick”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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#27

“Finally, having quite lost his wits, he was seized with the strangest conceit any madman in the world has ever had. It seemed to him that it was requisite and necessary, for the augmentation of his honor and for the benefit of the commonwealth, that he should become a knight-errant and ride throughout the world with his horse and his arms to seek adventures.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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#28

“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

tags: education

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#29

“Five years off my life...

I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?”
― Malorie Blackman, Boys Don't Cry

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#30

“Everyone has, or should have, a desert island list against that day when, fleeing one’s enemies, one is cast ashore, or when one limps away, all warfare done, to pass the rest of one’s time quietly reading.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

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