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#1

“This tiny patch of rocky ground took up an immense amount of space in the minds of millions of people, as it had for millennia.”
― N.S. Wikarski, The Arkana Mysteries: Omnibus Three: Books 6-8

tags: archaeology-adventure, historical-thriller, jerusalem, political-suspense, suspense, thriller

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#2

“The power to destroy life was valued far more than the power to create it, as represented by a mother goddess.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: ancient-religion, archaeological-thriller, feminist-history, goddess-history, history, lost-civilizations, quote, quote-of-the-day

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#3

“Two lives call out. Résumé life and eulogy life. One is a list. The other, a story.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: character-matters, eulogy-life, faith-and-purpose, legacy-living, life-purpose, meaning-over-status, personal-growth, reflective-reading, resume-life, values-driven-life

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#4

“If the goal is to build a life of meaning and not just motion (or worse, being 'sloppy busy'), then we need to regularly assess and recalibrate how we spend the currency of life—our time.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: life-purpose, life-quotes, meaningful-living, purpose-driven-life, purpose-of-life, quotes-about-life, quotes-to-live-by, work-life-balance

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#5

“Are you living on Someday Island, always waiting for a breeze that never comes?”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: guide-for-living, intentional-living, life-guide, life-purpose, mindset-shift, personal-growth, procrastinating, purpose-driven-life, purpose-of-life, take-the-leap

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#6

“The cruel irony of the Golden Lifecuffs is that they promise freedom—freedom from worry, freedom in retirement—but they demand your presence as collateral.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: career-reflection, financial-freedom, golden-lifecuffs, intentional-living, life-design, personal-growth, purpose-over-paycheck, time-freedom, wealth-mindset, work-life-balance

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#7

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: philosophical-musings, reflection

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#8

“In response to be asked about Boris Johnson becoming UK Prime Minister...

"I'm delighted. As the UK continues to plunge ever faster into a future akin to a dystopian novel I'll never run out of material to write more books. Although now that reality is more bizarre than fiction maybe plot-lines will need to be more ambitious. Perhaps a book where Boris Johnson is really an accidental sentient snafu of Trump's scrotum lint. Kind of a sequel to the Bush-Blair story. I see musical rights being drawn up as we speak.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: dystopian, dystopian-future, political, politicians, politics, prime-minister, satire, satire-quote, satire-quotes

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#9

“He dropped the phone back onto its cradle, began to turn around and felt a sudden ice-cold furrow open up in his side. Strength drained from his legs, and a moment later he sank to his knees. There was warmth now that ran over the initial and persistent cold.

Mohammed was confused, and barely noticed the briefcase being removed from his grip. He heard the click of a cell phone opening, and a soft beeping as a number was dialed.

'The package is in my possession,' a female voice said, and the phone clicked shut.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: assassin, death-and-dying, descriptive-prose

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#10

“The belief that time heals most traumas is, I fear, not to be relied upon.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: literary-fiction, memory, psychological-fiction, quiet-reflection, regret, thought-provoking, trauma-and-healing

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#11

“I wish I had a canvas and could paint the serene colours of eternity from the harsh palette that is planet Earth.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: fiction, human-nature, literary-fiction, mortality, poetic, poetic-fiction, romantic

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#12

“Being in love is so often depicted as a blissful condition in the comforting pages of fiction. It was not so for me.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: adult-fiction, emotional-conflict, literary-fiction, love, romantic, romantic-tragedy

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#13

“I have often reflected that people who say “times have changed” usually live as though they had not.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: book-club-reads, changing-times, dry-wit, fiction, fiction-writing, human-nature, literary-fiction

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#14

“She had that look again—taut jaw, pursed lips and angry eyes—the look her face assumed when her borderline personality had crossed the border.”
― L. M. Weeks, Bottled Lightning

tags: adult, adventure, drama, exciting, fiction, literary-fiction, romantic-literary-fiction, suspense

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#15

“They usually didn’t know I was half-Japanese. But you know how it is. No matter where you go, you don’t quite fit in. But it is fun to be able to slip in and out of two such completely different cultures seamlessly like a shapeshifter.”
― L. M. Weeks, Bottled Lightning

tags: action, adult, adventure, drama, exciting, fiction, legal-thriller, literary-fiction, romantic-literary-fiction

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#16

“Colonel Nguyen Van Tan said, “Sauget et Sang, you shall start making amends by confessing your crimes in public here, in this courtroom when the reporters from news services around the world arrive!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: bad, dangerous, deeds, divided, division, ethics, good, greed, helpless, humanity

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#17

“Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!” the American Lieutenant General “Iron Mike” O’Daniel also shared that opinion.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: educational, entertaining, eterans, factual, indochina-war, insightful, leaders, political-dictatorship, united

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#18

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, inspiring, veterans

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#19

“This stated, “Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted by the decision of your government to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam at the request of the Government of South Vietnam” The simple fact about this was that no such request was ever received by the Australian Government.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, historical-fiction, history-resource, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam, war-recount

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#20

“No ideas will be rejected out of hand and all ideas will be considered.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

tags: collectiveaction, governance, historical, historicalfiction, ideasmatter, leaders, leadership, management, readersofhistory

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#21

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: power-of-words

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#22

“What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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#23

“You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone than ever, because the illusion-the hope you'd held on to all those years-has been shattered.”
― Nicole Krauss, Man Walks into a Room

tags: disappointment, loneliness, love

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#24

“Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages Singles Edition

tags: love, relationships

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#25

“I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

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#26

“Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships”
― Gary Chapman

tags: relationships-love

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#27

“What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.”
― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages: Singles Edition

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#28

“Many people mess up every new day with what happened yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday, and in so doing pollute a potentially wonderful day. When bitterness, resentment, and revenge are allowed to live in the human heart, words of affirmation will be impossible to speak. The best thing we can do with past failures is to let them be history.”
― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages: Singles Edition

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#29

“Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

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#30

“After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.”
― Günter Grass

tags: advertising, capitalism, consumerism, economics, marketing

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