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#1

“Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect word, the exquisite or incisive phrase, or exactly the right tone, he was the best. And when it came to delivery, he had no peer.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

tags: defeat, destroy, diplomacy, hidden-secrets, history, insight, insightful, strategies, truth, war

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#2

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

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#3

“And now insane men adrift in a world without order formed a line at the door. They rendered unto her every evil act brought into this world by God. They fell upon her with brutality that none of them at any other time would have thought possible. There was once no scenario that would lead them to behave this way. At any other time in their life there were no words or arguments that could convince them to treat a woman with such wanton disregard. No one now asked, “What brought me to this?” Not one of them asked, “Who are these men? How did we end up here, doing these things? Who am I now?”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

tags: action, bosnia, deceptions, drama, ethnic-groups, fast-paced, fragile, insecurity, violence, war

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#4

“I find it harder and harder to talk about. It’s the frustration. I wish people had been this interested back then – we might have her with us.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

tags: alone, empathy, grief, grieving, loss, lost, perils, powerful, sadness, sick

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#5

“Her hair fragrant with hints of vanilla and cinnamon, subtle enough to make him wonder if it were the spices or truly the way she smelled.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, danger, fantasy, fiction, gripping, horror, mercenaries, novel

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#6

“My people believe in balance,” he said. “We believe that all living things—plants, animals, people—have an intelligent spirit, and that they all make important contributions to the balance of the world.”
― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

tags: adventure, compelling, dreams, emotional, reality, romance, seeking, sports-romance, survivor, women-s-literature

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#7

“If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: destiny, forgiveness, love

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#8

“You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?' he asked. 'You know what was in that apple? Logic. Logic and intellectual stuff. That was all that was in it. So—this is my point—what you have to do is vomit it up if you want to see things as they really are....'

The trouble is,' Teddy said, 'most people don't want to see things the way they are. They don't even want to stop getting born and dying all the time, instead of stopping and staying with God, where it's really nice.' He reflected. 'I never saw such a bunch of apple-eaters,' he said. He shook his head.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

tags: teddy

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#9

“How much did you care about anything that went on in my head until it got out?”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

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#10

“Henrietta died in 1951 from a vicious case of cervical cancer, he told us. But before she died, a surgeon took samples of her tumor and put them in a petri dish. Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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#11

“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

tags: dignity, honor, strength

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#12

“If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

tags: independence

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#13

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: fiction-novel, murder, past-experiences, personal-relationships, power, psychological, tense, thriller

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#14

“Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: drama, enlightening, exploration, fiction-writing, historical-biography, human-history, lovers, novel, period-drama, powerful

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#15

“The truth has a way of coming out of the closet.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action-packed, drama, genetics, gripping, love, political, science-fiction, supremacist, thrilling, war

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#16

“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is socialist, because in the contrary case both Bismarck and Napoleon would have to be arranged among the founders of socialism.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: east-europe, economic-theory, effective, equality, historical, private-property, scientific-socialism, speculation, totalitarian, unity

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#17

“An Affair With The Media
Being President presupposes a relationship with the media. One does have control over the intimacy of that connection.
My media association might be best represented by the following interview, recently undertaken for this book:
“What do you think of Newstime’s review of your book, Madam President?”
“Newstime’s review? Surely you mean Bill Bologna who works for Newstime?”
“Well, yes.”
“Now, Bill Bologna. What has he published?”
“He’s a critic. He does reviews.”
“Oh, he gets paid for reading what other people have published and then writing what he thinks of their writing?”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: american-history, democracy, diplomacy, fun, humour, influence, literary-fiction, policy, political-goals, satire

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#18

“Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.”
― Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead

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#19

“Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

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#20

“Then Ruxandra, Princess Dracula, sobbed for her lost childhood.”
― John Patrick Kennedy, Princess Dracula

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#21

“I am ever present to those who have realized me in every creature. Seeing all life as my manifestation, they are never separated from me. They worship me in the hearts of all, and all their actions proceed from me. Wherever they may live, they abide in me. (6:30–31)”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

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#22

“She stood there before them, in all the unconscious insolence of beauty, and”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

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#23

“To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.”
― Malcolm X

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