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#1

“Although enemy forces had overrun the mortar and some gun positions, they did not have everything their own way.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#2

“We must go back to the firm discipline and simplicity of the one-room schoolhouse to find a better education for our children.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

tags: civic-leadership, curriculum-reform, educational-principles, grassroots-efforts, historical-context, kentucky-politics, merit-based-systems, moral-dilemmas, policy-change, societal-reform

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#3

“Everybody has scars, and every scar has a story. Especially the ones you don’t see. Those go deeper. And cause more damage.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: conspiracies, conspire, domination, finding, heated, heroes, plots, secrets, suspense, thrilling

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#4

“Before she climbed into the car, I kindly let her know my back seats were very hard and very cold. Dead Eye Red responded, “Son, when I was your age, I would sit on a seat like this and smoke would appear!”
Somewhat surprised and tickled, I said, “Ma'am, no one will ever look under your car to see if it’s washed.” I really should have known better before I opened my big fat mouth. She said, “Son, no one is looking at my butt, but I wash it anyway!”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

tags: abuse, bullies, hope, manipulation, mental-illness, schizophrenic, struggle, true-story, truth, understanding

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#5

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit

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#6

“We need to embrace deliverance in the body of Christ so that God’s people can receive their full inheritance and be free from the chains of the devil.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: believe, change, courage, dig-deep, don-t-judge, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, jesus

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#7

“What is she looking for? She thought she had found it with Kyle. But maybe she hadn’t. Perhaps she was looking for stability, security, sameness because her growing-up years had seemed so fragmented, and she often felt unsure of how she fit in. Maybe stability isn’t all she is looking for.”
― Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found

tags: drama, love, love-story, page-turner, pain, searching, security, stability, struggles, values

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#8

“That noise you are hearing, drowning out the blows of life, is the wind touching the fronds of the thirty or so eighty-foot-tall palm trees encircling the centrally located swimming pool. You have fun thinking this sound might be the Holy Spirit.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: faith, fiction, human-seeking, insightful, passionate, personal-refelction, refelctive, soul-healing, spirituality, thought-provoking

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#9

“It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#10

“2. Alice Ereldon was in her late twenties, unmarried, and she had a reputation. She was an attractive twenty-eight-year-old. Her long brown hair hung down over her shoulders and she could conveniently sweep it over her face, partially hiding her dazzling amber eyes. The eyes were her secret weapon; she could look like a cat lining up its prey, and her prey was usually young male courtiers.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fantasy

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#11

“A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.”
― Brian Selznick

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#12

“With the stories of people she’d known since her childhood it was like that: one incident in their lives might come to an ending, but others would lead into new veins, and what was fascinating was to look at the whole of it and discern a pattern, a way of being, that had shaped those passages.”
― Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River

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#13

“You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man...”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

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#14

“I call that ambiguity,” I said. “Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to the darkness, different perspectives on the same things. Nothing in this whole world has only one side to it. Everything is like a kaleidoscope. That’s what I’m trying to capture in my art. That’s what I mean by ambiguity.”
― Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev: A Novel

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#15

“Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.”
― Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

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