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  • #1
    “It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the best at anything you do in life.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: encouraging, experiences, hopeful, life, life-skills, motivating, reality, self-healing, wisdom, wise
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    Todor Bombov
    “Socialism is not a competition; it is not a monopoly, either. Socialism is not a private property; it is not a state one, either. Socialism is a completely different thing. What is socialism in such case?”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: abolition, capitalism, freedom, humanity, keynes, nationalization, planned-capitalism, political-ideology, socialism, state
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    Steven Decker
    “Edward unlocked a drawer of his desk where he kept valuables, opened it, and withdrew the Buck knife Amelia had given him a few days after he’d turned eighteen, about a month before they were to be married. He stared straight ahead, feeling its weight in his hand. He looked down at the knife, opened it, and scraped his finger lightly across the blade. Still sharp. He had used it for only a month, but after Amelia left him at the altar, he stored it away, rarely touching it. Today, however, he wanted to remember the pain.”
    ― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live
    tags: bricklayer, endurance, enigmatic, fear, fiction, loss, puzzle, romance-fiction, suspense, trauma
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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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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Although enemy forces had overrun the mortar and some gun positions, they did not have everything their own way.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world
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    K. Ritz
    “It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, fantasy-adventure, fascinating, fiction, humour, intrigue, journal, magic, spiritual
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  • #7
    “Forget professional,” Penny said. “Tonight, you and I are just man and woman like Adam and Eve, Tarzan and Jane.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
    tags: activism, american-south, conflict, historical-education, innovation, personal-ethics, rural-schools, teaching-methods, traditional-values, transformation
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    Eoin Colfer
    “The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident
    tags: humour
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    Walt Whitman
    “Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
    tags: death, sex
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment … cross over into Ohio in order to utilize their industry and to be able to exercise it without shame … in Kentucky, masters make slaves work without being obliged to pay them, but they receive little fruit from their efforts, while the money that they would give to free workers would be recovered with interest from the value of their labors.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville
    tags: american-slavery, freedom, labor, slavery, work
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    John Grisham
    “Abraham Lincoln famously said that no man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
    ― John Grisham, Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
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    Omar Farhad
    “Losing money at the casino would at least leave you with the memory of enjoying one's self at the moment. Handing pure cash to the many forms of insurance every month should leave anyone bitter with the smallest amount of brain”
    ― Omar Farhad, Honor and Polygamy by Omar Farhad (7-May-2014) Paperback
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