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    Candace L. Talmadge
    “Don’t quit your desk job for stealth combat, my lord. You’d endanger the whole squadron with the noise you make just breathing.”
    ― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: bookish-laughs, character-chemistry, cour-tlife, fantasy, humor-in-fantasy, sharp-tongue, slow-burn-vibes, witty-dialogue
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    “Professionalism is doing your best at all times, but being willing to admit your mistakes, for it is by making mistakes that we learn.”
    ― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
    tags: career-advice, growth-mindset, law-students, lawyer-life, learning-from-failure, professional-ethics, resilience
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    “Since I was working on myself, with all my emotional problems and my mental health – I’m actually in a really good place right now.”
    ― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia
    tags: healing, hopeful-reads, lived-experience, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-memoir, recovery-journey, resilience
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    Don Hynes
    “Like the ancients
    I leave no trace
    but the imprint of kindness,
    left on the souls
    I’ve dared to love.”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
    tags: attitude, blessing, education, goodness, inspiration, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting
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    “Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: comfortably-numb, drugs, impending-doom
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    Chad Boudreaux
    “Words have incredible power, especially for a man in your esteemed position.”
    ― Chad Boudreaux, Mob Justice: A Scavenger Hunt Thriller
    tags: crime-fiction, influence-and-control, legal-thriller, mafia-politics, power-of-words, thought-provoking
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    Randy Pausch
    “My coach knew there was only one way to develop (self esteem): You give children something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.”
    ― Randy Pausch
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    Ken Kesey
    “Rules? PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES!”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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    Peter Benchley
    “...pot roast. It could be reheated. It might
    taste like a sneaker, but it would be warm.”
    ― Peter Benchley, Jaws
    tags: classics, funny, random
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Don’t feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Airman
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “لكنه كان مستريحا هادئا لأنه يحس بالبرد ولهذا فهو يحس بالحياة ــ الحائط”
    ― جان بول سارتر, الجحيم
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    Richard Adams
    “Go,” said Hazel, firmly and quietly, “or we’ll kill you.”
    ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
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