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#1

“One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, adventure, aliens, challenge, compelling, drama, fast-paced, science-fiction, struggles, thrilling

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#2

“Stepfather?" "It means he fucks your mum and isn't really your dad.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: absurd, courage, drug-use, emotional-depth, introspective, manipulation, satire, surrealism, technology, vivid

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#3

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, climatic, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable

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#4

“ Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: adventure, drama, dystopian, fantasy-novel, fast-paced, full-on, funny, gripping, magical, wars

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#5

“Human love needs answers and proof, while divine love needs nothing more than the feeling and the awareness of its existence.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: awareness, belief, boundaries, courage, encouraging, fulfilment, life, men-s-spirituality, time, wisdom

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#6

“…. ‘George said he needed a break. And there was something about Jonathan taking over …’ ‘That’s exactly what I mean,’ said Maxwell, ‘It seems like there’s all kinds of goings on there now.’ ‘What did the agents say then?’ ‘Your brother … he must still have a key. I told them to check, I told them. I expect they overlooked it. Hugo’s been going in and there are some women there apparently, I mean at the Manor House, Jonathan’s up to his usual tricks taking in every Tom, Dick and Harry and giving all kinds of undesirables a home, and there’s something about them chasing Hugo and taunting him, yesterday the buyers were viewing again and measuring up for curtains and things, I said they could, and they saw something going on outside, some shouting and laughing …’ ‘Women! What women? Jonathan’s not like that …’ ‘Not like that huh! He’s flesh and blood like the rest of us.’ ‘That’s not what I meant. Please don’t be angry Max, it’s not my fault.’ ‘Jonathan this and Jonathan that. Why do people think he’s so bloody marvellous eh! What the hell does he think he’s doing. People spilling over into my garden and wrecking the peace and quiet. George was completely mad to do this …”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

tags: beyond-the-grave, demon, emotional, hell, intrigue, kindness, mystery, odd, tragedy, vatican

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#7

“No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow them to.”
― Sherman Kennon

tags: inspiration, inspirational-quotes

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#8

“I can’t cry so I have to laugh.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

tags: brave, determined, enduring, inspirational, overcoming-adversity, powerful, strong, survivor, unwavering

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#9

“Los monstruos que salían de sus tumbas no son nada comparados con los que llevamos dentro del corazón.”
― Max Brooks

tags: corazón, dentro, monstruos, tumbas

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#10

“In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

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#11

“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

tags: inspirational, motivational

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#12

“...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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#13

“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

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#14

“Our new revolutionary government really has its work cut out for it!”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

tags: civics, hardwork, historicalread, history, nationbuilding, newbeginnings, politicalfiction, revolution, worldhistory

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#15

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery

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#16

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: philosophical-musings, reflection

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#17

“Seeing all the kids pick out different books brings a smile to her face.”
― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words

tags: book-joy, book-lovers, kids-reading, library-life, picture-book, read-aloud, storytime

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#18

“It was not simply energy that was doing the work, but the specific information the syllables conveyed.”
― Katherine Parker, Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life

tags: consciousnessshift, holistic, inneralchemy, resonance, sacredsyllables, spiritualpractice, subtleenergy, vibrationalhealing

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#19

“Starla and Conner ambled to his car, knowing each deliberate footstep meant the road to parting was nearer. He leaned his back against the door pulling her within inches of his face, their personal space evaporating like dew steeped in the warmth of the morning sun. She tilted her head sideways, searching his eyes with hers. Straightening the collar of his shirt she said, “If I’m too bold forgive me, but you fill a void in my life . . . you’re like finding that stray earring I’ve been trying to find for ages and now that I have, it scares me.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: blame, challenges, guilt, love, mystery, novel, redemption, romance, suspense, tradgedy

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#20

“The fantasy of living these experiences was one thing, but having the self-confidence to head out into the world and chase them, to take a great leap into the unknown and trust that the world would catch me, was another thing altogether.”
― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

tags: adventure-mindset, brave-choices, chasing-dreams, confidence-journey, fear-to-freedom, into-the-unknown, leap-of-faith, personal-growth, travel-memoir

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#21

“God has no other hands but ours”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: compassion, do-good, humanity, kindness, philosophical-fiction, service, spiritual-wisdom

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#22

“But your proficiency at tranquilizing the mad dogs of our numero uno justice department is nothing short of miraculous”
― Lin Wilder, Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5

tags: courtroom-drama, friends-and-allies, legal-thriller, pressure-cooker, sharp-humor, snappy-dialogue, thriller-reads

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#23

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: fiction-novel, murder, past-experiences, personal-relationships, power, psychological, tense, thriller

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#24

“Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievance
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Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
― The Founding Fathers, U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire)

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#25

“Giving birth does not make you a mother. Being there daily in good times and bad to provide, care, comfort, teach, sing, feed, clothe, encourage, discipline, clean, hug, pray, listen, cry, experience, protect, kiss, read, advocate, bandage, educate, coach, cheer, laugh, play and love unconditionally...well, that's a mother.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: develop, encourgement, growth, inspire, laugh, love, oach, positive

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#26

“It really takes an effort to appear stupider than you are.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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#27

“In addition to his instinct for discerning patterns across disciplines, Leonardo honed two other traits that aided his scientific pursuits: an omnivorous curiosity, which bordered on the fanatical, and an acute power of observation, which was eerily intense. Like much with Leonardo, these were interconnected. Any person who puts “Describe the tongue of the woodpecker” on his to-do list is overendowed with the combination of curiosity and acuity. His curiosity, like that of Einstein, often was about phenomena that most people over the age of ten no longer puzzle about: Why is the sky blue? How are clouds formed? Why can our eyes see only in a straight line? What is yawning? Einstein said he marveled about questions others found mundane because he was slow in learning to talk as a child. For Leonardo, this talent may have been connected to growing up with a love of nature while not being overly schooled in received wisdom.”
― Walter Isaacson, Leonardo Da Vinci

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#28

“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
― Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

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#29

“Signs and wonders, eh? Pity if there is nothing wonderful in signs, and significant in wonders! There's a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist--hark! By Jove, I have it! Look, you Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter; and now I'll read it off, straight out of the book. Come, Almanack! To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram--lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull--he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins--that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path--he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the Virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or Scales--happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when whang comes the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep. There's a sermon now, writ in high heaven, and the sun goes through it every year, and yet comes out of it all alive and hearty.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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