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#1

“Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
‘So eight years are coming to a close. This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: calculation, european-history, goals, history, literary, marriage, personal-goals, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics

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#2

“Sergeant Max Franklin replied, “Just go back to your post at number six and keep your wits about you. The word from the Americans in “Big Red One” is that the Noggies are coming to us. I hope not, but it could be what you have been hearing.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, historical-fiction, history-resource, oceanian-fiction, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, vietnam, war-recount

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#3

“Driving home, I thought of Janice, wondering why I wasn’t upset or hurt by (William) Styron’s wine-soaked moves. Did I give his flirtations a pass because of the alcohol? Was it because he was a famous and a highly praised writer whom I'd wanted to meet? Or did I need to protect him since he was somebody, and I was nobody? I only knew that I didn’t feel abused, like I knew Janice had been…. Styron was famous. But so was Coach, at least in Soso.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

tags: biography, coming-of-age, conversational, fall, glass-ceiling, illuminate, karen-hinton, moral-failures, rise, surreal

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#4

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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#5

“So, it wasn’t until I was living in Mexico that I first started enjoying chocolate mousse. See, there was this restaurant called La Lorraine that became a favorite of ours when John and I were living in Mexico City in 1964–65. The restaurant was in a beautiful old colonial period house with a large courtyard, red tile floors, and a big black and white portrait of Charles de Gaulle on the wall. The proprietor was a hefty French woman with grey hair swept up in a bun. She always welcomed us warmly and called us mes enfants, “my children.” Her restaurant was very popular with the folks from the German and French embassies located nearby. She wasn’t too keen on the locals. I think she took to us because I practiced my French on her and you know how the French are about their language! At the end of each evening (yeah, we often closed the joint) madame was usually seated at the table next to the kitchen counting up the evening’s receipts. Across from her at the table sat a large French poodle, wearing a napkin bib and enjoying a bowl of onion soup. Ah, those were the days… Oh, and her mousse au chocolate was to DIE for!”
― Mallory M. O'Connor, The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art

tags: biography, culinary-skills, experiences, family, friends, imagination, love-of-food, memoirs, menu, teachings

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#6

“I have had the best day ever more times that I can remember. So yes,
I believe I am ready to die if that is what is needed to live as I want to.”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

tags: africa, awareness, explore, fascination, insight, memoir, nature, raw, reflective, wild

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#7

“If energy never died, I now knew that love didn’t either; it could only be transformed.”
― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

tags: dark, fantasy, horror, intrigue, paranormal, romance, thriller, vampire, vampire-romance

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#8

“I realized he was on the island when I found this matchbook.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

tags: action, diplomat, drama, fast-paced, fiction, mystery, suspicion, thriller, thriller-novel

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#9

“Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: jonas, lois-lowry, the-giver

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#10

“Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

tags: acceptence, existence, purpose, self, self-actualization, understanding

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#11

“This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by what your father was. Here you can be something. Here’s a place to build a home. It isn’t the land”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

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#12

“Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.”
― Philip Pullman, The Ruby in the Smoke

tags: alone, independence, sally-lockhart, upbringing

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#13

“You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#14

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational

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#15

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

tags: inspiration, inspirational-quotes

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#16

“Alisha was now sitting in a shabby armchair with her face buried in a tissue. ‘It’s when someone is kind,’ she whispered, ‘You can keep going until someone is kind.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

tags: betrayal, bible, dark, demon, fear, frightening, kindness, psychic, thrilling, vatican

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#17

“He mixed his sacred medicines and smudged. Afterward, he sat there for a moment to allow the smoke to come into his body and spirit. This one act connected him, even if briefly, to himself and to what he believed was the spirit world. In that space he offered thanks to those who had come before him and asked for help in this world, not just for himself but for anyone who might be struggling this morning.”
― Mike Martin, Too Close For Comfort

tags: crime-story, curiosity, danger, humour, inspector, newfoundland, page-turner, police-force, protect, suspicious

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#18

“Fame to an artist is like light to a vampire.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: acceptance, courage, destiny, exciting, fiction, happiness, modern, pleasure, societal-expectations, transformation

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#19

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, fantasy-adventure, fascinating, fiction, humour, intrigue, journal, magic, spiritual

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#20

“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: androids, artificial-humans, dystopian, exciting, intrigue, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, secrets

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#21

“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: christmas, life, musings, poisoned

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#22

“Cada um de nós tem dentro de si alguma coisa que não pode ser negada, ainda que nos faça grita, gritar, até ao fim. Somos o que somos, e pronto. Como a velha lenda celta do pássaro com o espinho no peito que canta até morrer, porque precisa de fazê-lo, porque é levado a isso. Podemos saber que vamos errar até antes de cometermos o erro, mas o conhecimento de nós mesmos não afecta nem altera o resultado. Cada qual entoa o seu cântico, convencido de que é o mais maravilhoso que o mundo já ouviu. Não vês? Criámos os nossos espinhos e nunca nos detivemos para avaliar o custo. A única coisa que podemos fazer é sofrer a dor e dizer intimamente que valeu a pena.”
― Collen McCullough

tags: inspirational

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#23

“In fact, there are unlimited opportunities in the market, and missing out on one or two opportunities should not be treated as a bad thing.”
― Frank Miller, Secrets On Reversal Trading: Master Reversal Techniques In Less Than 3 days

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#24

“One who is about to die is really dead already and being so, exist no longer”
― Euripides, Alcestis

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#25

“There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

tags: athena, percy-jackson

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#26

“I tried to step away and look at it from a distance of words read in books, half-remembered. For history records the patterns of men’s lives, they say: Who slept with whom and with what results; who fought and who won and who lived to lie about it afterwards. All things, it is said, are duly recorded—all things of importance, that is. But not quite, for actually it is only the known, the seen, the heard and only those events that the recorder regards as important that are put down, those lies his keepers keep their power by.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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