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“The Beautiful Lady told me that her instructions would always serve good purposes,” Cindy said. “She said some of the good purposes wouldn’t be revealed until they could best serve the need that created the purpose.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

tags: childhood-struggles, children-s-rights, courtroom-justice, divine-guidance, fighting-for-justice, inspirational-tale, miracles-in-action, pain-and-recovery, perseverance-through-pain, testimony

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“The Black Prince is entombed at Canterbury Cathedral. His effigy reads: “Such as thou art, sometimes was I, Such as I am, such thou shalt be, I thought little on hour of death, So long as I enjoyed breath, On earth I had great riches, Land, houses, great treasure, Horses money and gold, But now a wretched captive am I, Deep in the ground, lo I lie, My beauty great, is all quite gone, My flesh is wasted to the bone.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: biographical, british-history, documentary, drama, fictional-drama, historical, isabella, king-edward-ii, research, royalty

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“The sound of a thousand whispering ghosts surrounded her.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

tags: excitement, fiction, griping, metaphysical, romance, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, thrilling, time-travel

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“The last few weeks of that summer, Janice lost interest in our conversations…. Her mind was taking her to other places, as though she was listening to a song or watching a movie or reading a book we could neither see nor hear.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

tags: biographies, biography, glass-ceiling, journalism, karen-hinton, memoir, penis-politic, political-leaders, revelatory, women-s-biographies

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“This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system in East Europe was called socialism and even by the scientific nonsense and absurd names of Communism and Communist system. In this system, the official ideology was allegedly Marxism, but really it could not endure any Marxist criticism. Since this “socialist” system was afraid of the weapon of criticism, it applied criticism of the weapon against its own citizens, as Marx would have said.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face