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#1

“And I assure you, I am perfectly sane now. Stable as a workhorse in old Ireland, my friends, with only one goal in life. To do good. Always good. ”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: action, adventure, drama, fiction, humanoid, sci-fi, time, time-travel, travel

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#2

“There are four steps to gaining ownership and intentionality over your personal identity and beliefs: Determining your objective function What is the purpose of my life? Determining your ideological tree How do I best fulfill that purpose? Determining your personal identity Who do I want to be? Determining your public identity How do I want others to think of me?”
― Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions

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#3

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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#4

“People experience anger when their expectations around how they should be treated don’t align with their actual treatment (or when they expect a thing to happen based on some series of actions and it does not happen).”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

tags: better-future, culture, cultures, diversity, environmentalists, fertility-decline, human-nature, humanity, population-decline, preserve

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#5

“This choice you make, if it’s real, born out of the love your mother left for you and your family deserves, if it’s made by the part of you that can only be honest, even when facing death, yours will be a life worth the world and everything in it. If this is the Erelim you’ll become, my Cae, then your failures and sins, your misgiving and crimes, will never stop me from loving you.”
― Daniel Cuervonegro, Sins of the Maker

tags: adventure, fiction, fiction-books, literature, magic, mystery, sci-fi, war, ya

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#6

“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#7

“In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

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#8

“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: non-conformity, rules

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#9

“One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

tags: jonathan-livingston-seagull, richard-bach

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#10

“What but design of darkness to appall?- If design govern in a thing so small.”
― Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost

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#11

“Perhaps the early indicators of the end times were not birthed in these later events. But were rather the symptoms of a fundamental flaw in the human condition.”
― Rohith S. Katbamna, Down and Rising

tags: englightening

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#12

“Future Politics
Effecting change in national politics was mostly a matter of making better use of online forums, encouraging voters to press forth with hard questions, providing statistics and solutions. Direct-to-voter referendums became an increasingly common way of effecting national policy. If Congress were deadlocked over a particular issue, the voters would be asked to make up their minds for them in the form of an online referendum.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: alternative-history, educational, female-presidents, fiction, fictional-narratives, historical-research, leadership, political, political-fiction, unique

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#13

“Trust is a strange bedfellow.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dramatic, dystopian, fiction, good-vs-evil, science-fiction, supremacist, war

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#14

“He’d heard of men like that in the service. Never actually met one—one of the alpha dogs let off the leash to lead the pack—but suspected he had now.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: combat, corruption, exploits, fury, horror, kidnap, mercenaries, military, mission, saviour

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#15

“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: ancient-athens, fiction, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, philosophical

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#16

“Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: lower-class, monopoly, non-fiction, planned-capitalism, political-principles, social-equality, socialism, sovereignty, upper-class, ussr

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#17

“Monsters know when they are recognized, just as bores do.”
― Thomas Harris, Cari Mora

tags: monsters

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#18

“How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

tags: kindness, poverty, sadness, starve, starving

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#19

“When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
― Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates

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#20

“When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.”
― Ann Patchett

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#21

“In the absence of clear knowledge, rumours have abounded and lies have been invented and believed.”
― Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

tags: cixi

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#22

“The big man shrugged, "I don't know. You're pretty good with the cards. Tell me what the odds are."

[She] shifted her gaze to Michael, then back at Hollis. "This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman chose you. If she's still out there, she's waiting for you. Staying alive any way she can until you find her. That's all that matters."

Everybody waited for what Hollis would next say. "You're a real ball-buster, you know that? ...Let me pack a few things.”
― Justin Cronin, The Twelve

tags: love, odds

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