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Iou : The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It

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Everville (Book of the Art #2)

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“Girls should certainly be heard. It is their voices the world is missing.”
― Shelley Adina, Lady of Devices

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“And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.”
― Kim Harrison, Every Which Way But Dead

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“Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.”
― Rufus Sewell

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“MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”
― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

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“people who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.”
― Tom Wright, Surprised by Hope: Original, provocative and practical

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