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    Milan Kordestani
    “Without active listening, you can not adequately contribute to civil discourse.”
    ― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
    tags: civil-disclosure, compassion, connection, conversions, divides, improvement, inspiring, practical-tools, respectful, social-skills
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    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    “Some 5,000 of Wallace’s 8,050 bird specimens he collected during eight years in the Malay Archipelago were actually collected by Ali. None are named after the young man.”
    ― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
    tags: biography, bird-specimens, explore, explorer, history, imaginative, memoir, natural-world, speculative
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    “Two simple words that will take you far in life: thank you. Don’t underestimate their power.”
    ― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
    tags: community, faith, fulfilling, insightful, life, live, perseverance, purposeful, transplant, unique-perspective
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    “The devil uses it against you, but he dresses it up as a friend. He masquerades it as something that you make peace with, not realizing that behind the curtain, it could be the worst enemy, ever, in your walk with the Lord. It’s time to bring that devil into repentance too.”
    ― John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms
    tags: ambassadors, blessed, destiny, god-given, good-fight, heaven, prayers, prophetic, satan, teachings
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    Susan Rowland
    “There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma
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    Eli Wilde
    “Maybe my legs are moving toward the house because that’s what they want to do rather than me wanting to go there.”
    I walked toward the house.
    Macy’s legs followed.”
    ― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons
    tags: action, danger, dark, different-world, drama, evolution, graphic, horror, mystery, tense
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    Rohith S. Katbamna
    “Most nights, her body was commerce. She traded vacuous affection for survival. Her wounded soul, bandaged by the deceptive nature of the
    Zone had served no purpose in aiding her.”
    ― Rohith S. Katbamna, Down and Rising
    tags: beautiful-woman, sex-work, survival, tragic
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    Betty Smith
    “They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Victoria Dougherty
    “his throat, but his voice remained”
    ― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church
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    Aimee Cabo Nikolov
    “#metooasachild”
    ― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
    tags: metooasachild
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    Therisa Peimer
    “Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" 
    "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi-romance, war
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    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal
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    Walter Farley
    “frog. It was this spongelike rubber cushion that absorbed the first terrific shock of a thousand-pound horse galloping over a hard surface at high speed.”
    ― Walter Farley, Man O'War
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    Richard Dawkins
    “Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
    tags: cultural-relativism
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    Bernhard Schlink
    “Einem Scheich läuft eine Frau mit einem anderen Mann davon. Sie ist seine Lieblingsfrau, sein Augapfel, jung und schön wie der Morgen. Der Scheich ist traurig, aber obwohl er ein stolzer Mann ist, hat er ein großes Herz und versteht, dass eine Frau, die liebt, ihrer Liebe folgt. Jahre später tötet der neue Mann die Frau im Zorn. Der Scheich, der toleriert hat, dass sein Eigentum seiner eigenen Wege geht, toleriert nicht, dass jemand anderes sein Eigentum zerstört. Also lässt er den neuen Mann erschlagen.”
    ― Bernhard Schlink, Sommerlügen
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a workable disguise." The quoting of an aphorism, such as "It takes a village to raise a child," "No news is good news," and "Love conquers all," rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen, which is why we provide our volunteers with a disguise kit in addition to helpful phrases of advice.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
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    Aesop
    “Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.”
    ― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables
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