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    William Kely McClung
    “Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
    tags: action, dark, drama, enemies, espionage, fight, literary-fiction, mystery, survival, tense
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    “He will tell you what's wrong in your society, who's to blame, and make you afraid of it, but he won't tell you how to fix it.”
    ― March Lions, The Last Sunset
    tags: alien, alien-invasion-science-fiction, destruction, drama, earth, fast-paced, humans, irreversible-damage, planetary-destruction, war
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    Max Nowaz
    “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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    Yvonne Korshak
    “My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, page-turner, politics, present
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    Nancy Omeara
    “The requirement for anyone running for elected office to have held a position of public service, such as fireman, school teacher, librarian, scout leader, or policeman was never actually passed into law.
    Still the range of day jobs that some of our Congress people now hold are pretty amazing.
    Somehow these days a background as a lawyer is a big minus.”
    ― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
    tags: american-history, discovery, historical-fiction, history, humour, satire, service, witty, women-in-politics
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    Gary Chapman
    “human anger is designed by God to motivate us to take constructive action in the face of wrongdoing or when facing injustice.”
    ― Gary Chapman, Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion
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    Daniel Keyes
    “He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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    “Ptolemy II’s far-famed parade, held in Alexandria perhaps in 278, included eighty thousand soldiers; even Adolf Hitler’s fiftieth birthday in 1939 was celebrated by only fifty thousand”
    ― Robin Waterfield, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
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    Lionel Shriver
    “Economics is closer to religion than science.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
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    Michael Shaara
    “Well, boy, if he's an angel, he's sure a murderin’ angel.”
    ― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
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    Irving Stone
    “Have you ever been in love?"
    "...in a way."
    "It's always 'in a way.”
    ― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
    tags: love
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