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#1

“I remember the awe and terror I felt as my awareness started to transition from the magical world of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy to one of the Big Bang, supernovas, and the apparent finality of death.
• Why is it that to function in society with strength and efficiency, we need to ignore the incomprehensible miracles that surround us constantly? Why is it that to function in the world, we must take on an oblivious self-confidence by placing ourselves in a tiny world, a small and limited subset of reality? Why is it that we abandon awe and limit ourselves to the prison that is right in front of our noses, guided primarily by our animal instincts while ignoring our full perception of the world? We have the capability to project our conscious thought backward or forward billions of years yet act as if all that matters is the past and/or immediate future. ”
― Ron Garan, Floating in Darkness - A Journey of Evolution

tags: adventures, difficulty, inspiring, life-perceptions, uncertainty

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#2

“Ludicrous? Seems like wherever you go, trouble follows you.”
“Look, Deputy Lawson. I had nothing to do with all this. I was just have a beer and minding my own business until this woman sat down next to me and said, ‘Can you help me, Mr. Ludef…’ She didn’t even finish the sentence. The next thing I know she’s laying on the deck. I don’t know who she is or why she sought me out.”
“Seems like I’ve heard this story before. You have a nasty reputation of people dying around you.”
“You know better. That comes with the occupation.”
“And you know the drill. Don’t leave town until we get to the bottom of this.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime, fiction, murder-mystery

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#3

“You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#4

“I wished he'd stop trying to put me off. It was becoming irksome. Or, if he were, then he really needed to stop acting so damned charming.”
― Diana Forbes, Mistress Suffragette

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

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#5

“God knows far more about living a life of joy and blessings than we do.”
― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea

tags: christianity, gods-power, guidance, healing, love, reflection, religion-and-philoshophy, spirtitual-growth

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#6

“Mary’s supposed to be the opposite of Eve, but I bet she had childbirth pain just like everyone else.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

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#7

“I’ve tried to imagine how she’d feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization. I’m pretty sure that she—like most of us—would be shocked to hear that there are trillions more of her cells growing in laboratories now than there ever were in her body.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

tags: hela, henrietta-lacks, human-cells, medical-advancement

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#8

“Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me).”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

tags: anissa, college-romance, coming-of-age, crush, immigrant-experience, michael, middle-east, new-adult-contemporary-romance, new-york, political-romance, syrian-civil-war, the-syrian-virgin, zack-love

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#9

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: apple, growth, hope, human, peace, plants

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#10

“Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.”
― Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

tags: death, drowning, king-neptune, neptune, ocean, poseidon, sea, the-ocean, the-sea

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#11

“You are safe with me."
"I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.”
― Byatt A. S. , Possession

tags: romance

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#12

“Bobby was a pretty boy. All looks no substance. Oh you know the kind, on the fringe, never gonna be a roller, but always gonna be the roller’s best friend. Never gonna hit the homerun, but damn sure gonna be happy with the singles, doubles and maybe a few triples.” She shrugged, “that was Bobby Dey-Dey.”
― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions

tags: black-and-white, dramatic, enforcement, investigator, murder, organised-crime, tense, thriller, united-states, violence

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#13

“GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE LOWERED BY ONE DEGREE. GLOBEWIDE NATURAL INGREDIENT SHORTAGE IN EFFECT AS OF THIS MESSAGE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: absurd, conflicting-desires, desire, disorientation, existential-despair, exploring, freedom, self-doubt, unease, vivid

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#14

“Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: drama, exciting, family, fiction, finding-happinesss, honour, living, military, philosophy, soul-searching

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#15

“Please explain to me why the people here on World 2B can hate one another when it comes to differences in religion, yet put religion aside when pursuing other matters of self-interest.”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

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#16

“Think about it this way—if we die together, you won’t have to mourn me.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

tags: conspiracy, culture, dark-side, emotional, new-york-city, occult-power, power-struggle, vibrant, vicious, war

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#17

“The existential void is the core of our souls, shaping energy and vibration into existential form. Our fate and personality are shaped and written in DNA, so free choice is a dream until the next rebirth.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: destiny-and-fate, dna-and-personality, existential-void, illusion-of-free-will, rebirth-and-reincarnation

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#18

“ In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, thriller

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#19

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, fantasy-adventure, fascinating, fiction, humour, intrigue, journal, magic, spiritual

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#20

“Rachael, I don’t think this is a very good idea.” Adam tried to protest and break away, but it was too late. She had a good hold on him by now, and he was going nowhere.
“Not bad for a little man like you,” she said. “There seems to be something different about you lately.” Rachael smiled.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#21

“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

tags: conscience, laws

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#22

“God is America’s king.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

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#23

“كنت أسمع اسمي ولا أري نفسي،
كنت منشغلا بنفسي، لكني أبدا لم أكن مستحقا لها
وحين كان و خرجت من نفسي....
وجدت.. نـفسـي”
― جلال الدين الرومي

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