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#1

“In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: american-history, diplomacy, european-history, history, international, literary, politics, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics

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#2

“At first, she bucked like a wild stag beneath me, and she tried to scream, but the pillow did a good job of muffling her voice. Before long, the bucking stopped, and my wife’s corpse, blue without oxygen, appeared below me like a hideous phantom.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: fantasy, horror, imaginative, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, slasher

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#3

“When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: find-god, god-quotes, godly, love, self-awareness, self-love, spiritual-quotes, spiritualism, spirituality, wisdom

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#4

“Some Marauders do do that, but not the smart ones.” Ivy giggles. “I said, doo-doo.”
― S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada

tags: army, drama, excitement, fiction, full-on, galaxy, post-apocalyptic, romance, sci-fi

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#5

“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for me. He was really surprised - his favorite drink is actually 7UP. But he complimented me for getting the color of the can right.”
― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

tags: biting-satire, celebrities, fiction, honest, humorous, literature, modern-fiction, satire, satirical, satirical-fiction

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#6

“If Adam were honest with himself, which he rarely was, he’d come to terms with the fact that beyond his work and the view, he was floundering a bit. His plan had been to take the insurance money, leave his old life behind, and start completely over somewhere new. A place where memories didn’t lurk around every corner.
He hadn’t figured on the memories coming along with him.”
― Kirsten Fullmer

tags: cozy-mystery, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, sweet-romance

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#7

“ “We think a spy scheme could be brewing with one or more of the Middle East scientists going to Los Alamos.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: cia, cold-war, conflicts, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series, spy

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#8

“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: atrocities, facts, fiction, history, lies, literature, secrets, war, wartime

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#9

“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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#10

“Si certains lieux publics avaient survécu aux répressions du régime, soit c'était pour nous laisser un espace de liberté, soit c'était de l'ignorance.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 1

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#11

“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

tags: bible, god, love, money

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#12

“When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

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#13

“The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

tags: 1960s, counter-culture

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#14

“...at such moments of extreme panic and anguish you do manage that trick with time: you are at last free from the illusion that time is linear.

In panic, time stops: past, present and future exist as a single overwhelming force. You then, perversely, want time to appear to run forwards because the 'future' is the only place you can see an escape from this intolerable overload of feeling. But at such moments time doesn't move. And if time isn't running, then all events that we think of as past or future are actually happening simultaneously. That is the really terrifying thing. And you are subsumed. You're buried, as beneath an avalanche, by the weight of simultaneous events.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

tags: panic, panic-attacks, time

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#15

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#16

“… Exhausting climbs lay ahead. It was Sunday … May 17th … The path seemed to climb from dawn till dusk, the rain poured down nearly all day. The mud was worse than ever, and more slippery. Maggie, the elephant, was heavily laden, and at one time it seemed hopeless to expect her to struggle up those towering hills … as the light was going we reached the camp, we found it only a huddle of shelters already occupied on a hill-top 4000 ft high, across which a cold wind swept … Dr Russell”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

tags: classified, courageous-leadership, exhausted-elephant, hidden-agendas, inside-story, military-leaders, miscommunication, nagumo, planes

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#17

“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”)
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: class-inequality, division, influence, informative, lower-class, nationalization, social-equality, social-justice, unity, upper-class

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#18

“One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and – pop! – out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.”
― Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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#19

“Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.”
― Ann Patchett

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#20

“The mood I was in, I saw the large sweep of America's history as Florida's assault on civilization.”
― Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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#21

“People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

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#22

“I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

tags: mystery

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#23

“Bütün gücümle kadınların, bütün kadınların kadınlığın ne olduğunu nihayet anlamasını diledim; gücünü ve gururunu ve hayattaki yerini anlamalarını; dünyanın anneleri olarak görevlerinin ne olduğunu görmelerini; yaşayan herkesi sevmelerini ve onlara değer vermelerini; erkeklerin ne kadar kötü olabileceğini görmelerini; yalnızca en iyilerini seçip daha da iyilerini dünyaya getirmelerini; insan olarak görevlerinin ne olduğunu görmelerini ve yaşama, çalışmaya ve mutluluğa kendilerini tamamen adamalarını diledim.
Nefes nefese, gözlerimde ışıltıyla durdum. Bedenim titreyerek bekledim bir şeylerin olmasını.
Hiçbir şey olmadı.
Görüyorsunuz ya, bana yapılan büyü kara büyüydü, benim dileğimse bembeyaz bir dilek.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarı Duvar Kağıdı ve Diğer Öyküler

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