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  • #1
    “I had a little help from my Glimmers.”
    ― Robert Agnello, The Glimmers Save Christmas
    tags: animals, children-books, faith, fiction, fiction-books, friendship, heart-warming, hope, love, pets
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Thickly forested regions of Phuoc Tuy including the Rung Sat swamps and farms considered to be controlled by the Vietcong, were regularly sprayed by defoliants including “Agent Orange” using aircraft. This was both an inhumane and unsuccessful strategy which only destroyed enough food to feed 245,000 Vietnamese people for a year resulting in a propaganda gift to the Vietcong. (Ham, 2007). Given that defoliation did not uncover the enemy, who kept on fighting from jungle, caves and tunnels, the whole defoliation programme must be considered a failure. Given also, that birth defects and other health problems associated with defoliants can be directly blamed upon “Agent Orange”, it stands to reason that the allies in the Second Indochina War who sprayed it upon villages and farms can in fact be said to be, “Guilty of War Crimes!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: educational, entertaining, factual, indochina-war, insightful, united, unity, unrest, warring, world
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    “Many poor people standing in line are being turned away because they do not have enough money to get transportation.”
    ― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
    tags: action, conquest, fast-paced, intrigue, military, mystery, powerful, war, wealth, weapon
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    Max Nowaz
    “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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    Sybrina Durant
    “The discovery of curium was part of the Manhattan Project, so it stayed secret until World War II ended. It was supposed to be announced at an American Chemical Society meeting, but was accidentally revealed early on a kids’ radio show. The name was chosen to honor Marie and Pierre Curie for their work in radioactivity.”
    ― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Actinide Knights
    tags: children-s-book, children-s-illustrations, children-s-learning, children-s-picture-book, fun-illustrations, kids-reading, kindness, learning, positive
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    Theasa Tuohy
    “Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age.  She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller
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    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “Stop it!’ The girl jumped out of her chair, ‘Stop torturing me! Stop pretending you didn’t know each other, you planned all this, and then you waited for a wet day and then he was going to come in and then there is this story, and then he’d send the photos off, stop it! Leave me alone!’ She rushed to the door and tore it open and vanished down the hotel stairs.”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
    tags: exorcism, heart-breaking, isolation, love, pain, paranoia, psychic, suspense, trauma, unusual
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    Susan Rowland
    “Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction-novel, investigation, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller
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    “Funny how some things work out. I mean, how many pairs of eyes do you look into in a lifetime – hundreds, maybe even thousands? Yet, only one pair of eyes means anything and everything. Who knows why?”
    ― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
    tags: challenges, detective-agency, gang-warfare, informant, love, men-vs-women, missing, mob, mystery, treachery
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  • #10
    “He turned and saw Becky, crying in the doorway of her house. What was he doing here? Turning back he saw flashing blue lights at the end of the road, and realised the ringing in his ears was the sound of approaching sirens.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: impending-doom, reality-check, realization
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    Todor Bombov
    “Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan
    tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, futuristic, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology
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    Robert Musil
    “There's no longer a whole man confronting a whole world, only a human something moving about in a general cultural-medium.”
    ― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, in fact, years later, when [she] would no longer bewail his loss. Or not as relentlessly; not nearly. There would come a day when the details of his face would begin to slip from memory's grip, when overhearing a mother on the street call after her child by [his] name would no longer cut her adrift. She would not miss him as she did now, when the ache of his absence was her unremitting companion--like the phantom pain of an amputee.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: loss, love
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    Greg Mortenson
    “Когда ты впервые пьешь чай с горцами балти, ты - чужак. Во второй раз - почетный гость. Третья чашка чая означает, что ты - часть семьи, а ради семьи они готовы на что угодно. Даже умереть.”
    ― Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
    tags: friends, life, tea, three-cups-of-tea, world
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    Donna Tartt
    “Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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    Richard Carlson
    “In low moods we lose our perspective and everything seems urgent. We completely forget that when we are in a good mood, everything seems so much better.”
    ― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
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  • #17
    Roald Dahl
    “A witch never gets caught. Don’t forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The Witches
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