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#1

“There seems to be a requirement for just so many people to be in the poor class, just as the need for a middle class exists. One class actually supports the other. The only way to get out of that cycle is to fight your way out. Never pass up an opportunity, and stick your foot into every open door, even if it’s just to see what’s inside. If there’s a possibility of seeing something you never have seen to experiencing something new. Do it. ”
― Gaylan D. Wright, Slave to the Dream: Everyone’s Dream

tags: experience-life, live-life-to-the-fullest, memoir, non-fiction

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#2

“Mr. Park’s home, which doubled as his office, was small, dark, and stank of old man. Although Mr. Park was not that old, he was cheap and unmarried. And that smell, and the smell of old man, are easily confused.”
― J.K. Franko

tags: new-book, next-novel, what-makes-you-stronger

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#3

“What the hell, Jack? What the hell were you doing back there? Cool the hell off. You’re used to people staring. Get a grip, man. Too early to let things get to you.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: murder-mystery, noir-fiction, suspen

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#4

“People were funny. They thought having a drone hanging outside the window was too invasive, but a lifelog didn’t strike the same chord. The recording feature didn’t feel invasive.”
― Hieronymus Hawkes, Effacement

tags: effacement, effacement-quotes, novel-quotes

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#5

“The editorial director of the Hysteria Channel needs to be tough. This is a highly competitive business. We thrive on conflict. Do you have any experience with the kind of human misery that drives our ratings?”
“If you look at the second page of my resume, you’ll see that I have destroyed at least 114 civilizations, have threatened three dozen galaxies and have haunted dimensions you’ve never even heard of. Twice, I was named Demon of the Month. That earned me a premium parking spot.”
”
― Steve Bates, Back To You

tags: fiction, fiction-novel, other-dimensions

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#6

“Yes, we've given them the benefit of the doubt. But, isn't it time (for once in our lives) to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt?”
― Janine Myung Ja, Adoption Stories

tags: adopted, family-relationships, law

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#7

“People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

tags: collaboration, colleagues, coworkers, engagement, engaging, memorable, memory, partners, relationships, team, work-together

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#8

“I felt hot under my Mutton sleeves. "I just wish he'd have the decency to say whatever he came to say in front of his wife."
"Perhaps his wife is busy today."
"She shouldn't be." His wife should track him like a bloodhound.”
― Diana Forbes, Mistress Suffragette

tags: historical-fiction, historical-novel, women-s-rights

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#9

“I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

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#10

“You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: albus-dumbledore

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#11

“My heart is sad, my eyes grow dim, Yet do I put my trust in Him, And in due time, all sorrow past, In safety home I’ll come at last.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

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#12

“high heels are each big enough to bury an Egyptian in.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

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#13

“The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

tags: anxiety, dalai-lama, happiness, honesty

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#14

“that’s what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

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#15

“It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
- Brom”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

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#16

“Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

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#17

“As I watched them embrace, there on the front lawn, my heart was rocked by waves of unbridled joy. It occurred to me that up until this moment I’d only ever experienced the bridled kind.”
― Ernest Cline, Armada

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#18

“I Ignore the unwelcome stab of disappointment. Why do I want to spend every single minute with this controlling sex god? Oh yes, I've fallen in love with him, and he can fly.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

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#19

“He believed that the words “I can’t afford it” shut down your brain. It didn’t have to think anymore. “How can I afford it?” opened up the brain and forced it to think and search for answers.
But most importantly, he felt the words, “I can’t afford it,” were
a lie. And the human spirit knows it. “ The human spirit is very, very powerful,” he would say. “It knows it can do anything.” By having a lazy mind that says, “I can’t afford it,” a war breaks out inside you. Your spirit is angry, and your lazy mind must defend its lie. The spirit is screaming, “Come on. Let’s go to the gym and work out.” And the lazy mind says, “But I’m tired. I worked really hard today.” Or the human spirit says, “I’m sick and tired of being poor. Let’s get out there and get rich.” To which the lazy mind says, “Rich people are greedy. Besides it’s too much bother. It’s not safe. I might lose money. I’m working hard enough as it is. I’ve got too much to do at work anyway. Look at what I have to do tonight. My boss wants it finished by morning.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

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#20

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.”
― James Joyce

tags: fear, secrets, silence, tiredness

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#21

“If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: drama, fiction, fun, general-fiction, laugh-out-loud, love, relationships, romance-novel, satire-fiction, suspense

467 likes

#22

“I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: grief, humour, imagination, literary-fiction, love, neighbours, rural-fiction, small-town, small-town-fiction

647 likes

#23

“Humans knew a long time ago that everything was connected. They also knew that plants and animals communicate with each other….”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: awareness-building, eco-education, energy-fields, gentle-teaching, learning-together, living-ecosystems, planet-connection, playful-teaching, shared-experiences, water-and-words

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#24

“It is working for God, not a boss. Maybe you will get a raise in consciousness.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: drama, empathy, healing, imagination, imaginery, insight, meditating, meditation, second-person, self-love

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#25

“You are not the first person to come here, and you will most likely not be the last. Many souls have arrived here in quest of this thing before you and will continue to do so after you. Here, everything revolves in a circle. You must have noticed that some events in your life are also occurring in the lives of others. Or you’re meeting people with the same name again.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: affairs, curiosity, fiction, joy, personal, personal-growth, pride, respect, sexual, transformation

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#26

“This isn’t a one-and-done thing for me. So, if you think you’re going to use me to scratch an itch, then you’d better think again.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: action-packed, compassionate, mystery, romance, sexy-entanglements, stubborn, suspense, tough

141 likes

#27

“من قال عليّ ما لم أقل فليتبوأ مقعده من النار
Whoever ascribes to me what I have not said then let him occupy his seat in Hell-fire! (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 3, #109)”
― Prophet Muhammad

tags: authenticity, bukhari, hadeeth, hadith, islam, mohammed, muhammad, narrations, reports, الحديث-الشريف, حديث

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#28

“From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first.”
― A.A. Milne, The Red House Mystery

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#29

“Righteous Person, this title being a peculiarly Israeli honor based on an ancient tribal assumption that in the mass of Gentiles, the God of Israel would always provide a leavening of just men.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

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#30

“The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

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