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#1

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

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#2

“With the amount of diazepam in me, I should have been content to lie back and let events unfold as they may, and my curiosity did for a moment consider it, but then a punch of panic reminded me that people far saner than I were murdered for less in more conspicuous locations.”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade

tags: diazepam, murder, panic, sanity, valium

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#3

“DOUBLE DEATH FOR THE KIND PHILANTHROPISTS”
― Ann Rule, Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16

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#4

“Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the vantage point of your loved ones, a hint of cruelty.”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

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#5

“Healing begins, the Denver Post announced Thursday morning. The headline spanned the full width of page one thirty-six hours after the attack. Ministers, psychiatrists, and grief counselors cringed. It was an insanely premature assessment.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

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#6

“At the beginning of the twentieth century, a French monk, Marcel Audiffren, invented the world’s first electric-powered household refrigerator”
― Mark Kurlansky, Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

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#7

“No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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#8

“He’s a real-life Dr. House.” •”
― Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

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#9

“Passively attempting to earn my humanity by being smart, nice, friendly, and good at my job had gotten me nowhere; my private confrontation with Dan had gotten me nowhere; literally telling him ‘this harms me’ had gotten me nowhere; taking a quick, vague swipe at him on the blog had gotten me nowhere.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

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#10

“The truth is, it’s hard to get people to like you, but it’s even harder to keep people liking you.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

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#11

“Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

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#12

“You need to be able to feel proud of yourself even if you were living in a tiny hut in the middle of nowhere, taking care of goats.”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

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#13

“The president began by admiring his own menu card, which he held up. “They write these things out one at a time, by hand,” he marveled, referring to the White House staff. “A calligrapher,” I replied, nodding. He looked quizzical. “They write them by hand,” he repeated.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

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#14

“Ankh, udja, seneb!”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

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#15

“Both Bratva and thieves in law would like to call themselves nihilists and anarchists because they don’t support the established government, but they govern nonetheless, and you can’t be an anarchist unless you follow its rule. Crime and anarchy are no more synonymous than nihilism and existentialism, or fatalism and determinism; so many isms there was bound to be a schism.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

tags: anarchy, bratva, existentialism, fatalist, nihilism, philosophy, russia, russian-mafia, thief-in-law, thieve-in-law

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#16

“chairman of the Washington Post Company, in a one-word e-mail I received the morning after the story appeared. A German filmmaker, who happened to be visiting Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum on the day the story was published, decided to make a documentary about Shin’s life.”
― Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

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#17

“My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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#18

“And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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#19

“evangelizing was what successful startup founders did in Silicon Valley. You didn’t change the world by being cynical.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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#20

“Exposing a young child to the realities of love and death is far less dangerous than exposing them to the lie of the happy ending. Children of the Disney princess era grew up with a whitewashed version of reality filled with animal sidekicks and unrealistic expectations.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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#21

“It is not for me to pass judgement on those prisoners who put their own people above everyone else. Who can throw a stone at a man who favors his friends under circumstances when, sooner or later, it is a question of life or death? No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same".”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: life-death

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#22

“You never know what you can achieve so long as you never stop trying.”
― Stephanie Thornton, The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#23

“He picks the most visible place on purpose,” said the investor and Tesla board member Steve Jurvetson. “He’s at Tesla just about every Saturday and Sunday and wants people to see him and know they can find him. Then, he can also call suppliers on the weekend, and let them know that he’s personally putting in the hours on the factory floor and expects the same from them.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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#24

“The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell. Ed”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade

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#25

“To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential

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#26

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#27

“What we have learned, my dear, is that loving you and your siblings is the easiest thing in the universe and perhaps the most complex and meaningful.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, The Hunter and the Star Queen

tags: adventure, family, family-loyalty, family-relationships, fantasy-adventure, love, love-quotes, science-fantasy, sibling-love

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#28

“Everything feels impossibly vivid, like a memory stolen from a fairytale.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, The Hunter and the Star Queen

tags: adventure, adventure-fantasy, adventure-reads, atmospheric-reads, cosmic-wonder, dreamlike, quote-of-the-day, science, science-fantasy, speculative-fiction

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#29

“You will do what you can do. And you know, as you always have, that you only discover what more you can do once the moment demands it.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, The Hunter and the Star Queen

tags: courage, fantasy, growth, growth-mindset, inner-strength, personal-growth, resilience, science, science-fantasy

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#30

“It has been known for centuries that it is mathematically impossible to prove everything. Human understanding will always contain truths that cannot be demonstrated only recognized.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, The Hunter and the Star Queen

tags: consciousness, cosmic, fantasy, fantasy-series, science-fantasy, speculative-fiction, truth

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