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Running with the Demon (Word & Void, #1)

by Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author)

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The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)

by Tom Clancy

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“She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. In modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

tags: aim, dream, joan-of-arc, practical, sentiment

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“Gruff and Tackleton was also there, doing the agreeable; with the evident sensation of being as perfectly at home, and as unquestionably in his own element, as a fresh young salmon on the top of the Great Pyramid.”
― Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

tags: out-of-element

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“In the struggle for survival, the cutest win out at the expense of the less cute because they appeal more to celebrities and, through them, to a live television audience.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

tags: cute, survival, television

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“I have a car again! Top of the list, easily. It’s the American dream. The attendant debt is also part of the dream, I suppose. Americans have weird dreams, when you get right down to it.”
― Micah B. Edwards, Everything Falls Apart

tags: american-dream, car, credit-card, debt

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“If there was one thing she had learned on this trip, it was that leadership was more than titles and giving orders. It was an act of becoming something greater than what one had been before; it was doing things for others, things that they could not do themselves. It was a burden, true, but it refined as much as it hurt.”
― Brandon Sanderson, White Sand

tags: growth, leadership

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