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“unfortunately just”
― Mary Connealy, Out of Control

“Lianna took a deep breath and willed the water to come forth. A warm glow washed over her body, increasing in heat with every beat of her”
― Jeroen Steenbeeke, Gift of the Destroyer

“%seen_this_time, @new_urls); sub do_stuff { if (-e 'seen_last_time.dat')”
― Sean M. Burke, Perl & LWP: Fetching Web Pages, Parsing HTML, Writing Spiders & More

“happens”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“Scripture were chosen and prepared by God for their sacred task, and an analysis of Scripture makes clear that their distinctive personalities and writing styles come through. Luke’s style,”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust the Bible?

“the turn of a single word. He also said that not a jot or a tittle of the law will pass away until all is fulfilled (Matt. 5:18). He meant that there is not a superfluous word in the law of God or a word that is open to negotiation. Every word carries”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust the Bible?

“that he asked to have input in designing a new version. I was both amused and willing, so I readily assented. I ended up having more than forty interviews and conversations with him. Some were formal ones in his Palo Alto living room,”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. “I make 50 cents for showing up,” he liked to joke, “and the other 50 cents is based on performance.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“trajectory that could be expected to continue. This was reaffirmed in 1971, when Intel was able to etch a complete central processing unit onto one chip, the Intel 4004, which was dubbed”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Sometimes I think I’m crazy. I’m sitting at a casino table in Atlantic City, and everyone around me is motionless. I call this the Quiet, as though giving it a name makes it seem more real—as though giving it a name changes”
― Dima Zales, The Last Humans: The Complete Trilogy

“Grandma, the Cowboy, and the Professional, as I call them. I feel that now almost-imperceptible fear that accompanies the phasing. That’s what I call the process: phasing into the Quiet. Worrying about my”
― Dima Zales, The Last Humans: The Complete Trilogy

“that the hand is warm, rather than cold. When I was a kid, I expected people to feel cold in the Quiet, like stone statues. With the Professional’s hand moved away, I pick up his cards.”
― Dima Zales, The Last Humans: The Complete Trilogy

“حولي بغتة، فراغ أسود لانهائي تناثرت فيه النجوم، يشق المُذَنَّب خلاله طريقًا نحو الشرق، لأول مرة أراه بذلك القرب؛ صخورًا تفور، تغلي وتتفتت،”
― أحمد مراد, موسم صيد الغزلان