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  • #1
    “He sounds like a politician running for office.”
    ― March Lions, The Last Sunset
    tags: action-packed, alien-invasion, alien-spacecraft, aliens, compelling, earth, fast-paced, galaxy, humans, struggles
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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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    William Kely McClung
    “Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
    tags: action, dark, drama, enemies, espionage, fight, literary-fiction, mystery, survival, tense
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  • #4
    Michael G. Kramer
    “I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a preemptive strike against the French by launching “Operation Bright Moon”, which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ětat which will disarm the Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!”  

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-athens, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, treacherous
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    Tina Traverse
    “We Are brothers, tied by blood, in our veins, what we spill. But it is a deadly secret that will forever bind us.”
    ― Tina Traverse, Destiny of the Vampire
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    James Herriot
    “My mind went back to my school-days and an old gentleman talking to the class about careers. He had said: “If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.” I laughed aloud in the darkness and as I got into the car I was still chuckling. That old chap certainly wasn’t kidding. Variety. That was it—variety.”
    ― 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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  • #8
    Sun Tzu
    “Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Daniel Quinn
    “Making food a commodity to be owned was one of the great innovations of our culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key—and putting it there is the cornerstone of our economy, for if the food wasn't under lock and key, who would work?”
    ― Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “Then there was the concert where the boys refused to sing 'God Save the King' because of the pudding they had had for luncheon. One way and another, I have been consistently unfortunate in my efforts at festivity. And yet I look forward to each new fiasco with the utmost relish.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
    tags: festivity, pudding, relish
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humans
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literary-fiction
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