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  • #1
    C. Toni Graham
    “Blessings! Count them and be thankful. Ask for an abundance of them and accept with gratitude.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #2
    Max Nowaz
    “A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #3
    “In contrast, the gratification and education received from Sanjit’s classes is slow burning, personal, and in a changing world allegedly becoming more attuned to and obsessed with requiring that money spent – especially on education – must yield tangible results, what many would view as a paradoxical dynamic nevertheless persists there, near Park Circus, Kolkata. No grades, no forced accountability, all voluntary learning.”
    Colin Phelan, The Local School

  • #4
    Michael Tobert
    “Lathis rattle against steel railings. Drenched half-naked men, some with torn shirts, jump up and down waving their fists. Some chant ‘Bande Mataram,’ others ‘Mazdur ki jai,’ whatever is their preference, the motherland or the brotherhood of workers. The hammer and sickle, red but limp, flaps like a half-dead fish against the trunk of a banyan tree. The sky cries monsoon tears; it has been crying all night.”
    Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

  • #5
    Charles Dowding
    “Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
    Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

  • #6
    S.G. Blaise
    “I would recommend you let Consuasor Staan go before he runs out of air. I would hate to see your case end up in front of the Senatus. There is only so much I can do to support the warriors, but even I cannot overlook murder.”
    S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada

  • #7
    Michael G. Kramer
    “  “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
    Michael G. Kramer

  • #8
    Claudia   Clark
    “In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.”
    Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

  • #9
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Heidi's role as grand master was to monitor all the women and to manage their locations and communication. Even though she’d done this many times on multiple missions, her heartbeat still pounded in her ears.”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

  • #10
    S.W. Clemens
    “Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
    S.W. Clemens

  • #11
    Karl Braungart
    “  “What’s puzzling is the sender wrote, ‘I hope this is helpful for the Tariq’Allah office in Istanbul. Stay in touch.’ Turkey does not speak Arabic. Someone wrote this cover page in Arabic.”
    Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

  • #12
    John Bennardo
    “If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.”
    John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

  • #13
    Hermann Hesse
    “Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. ”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #14
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.”
    Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

  • #15
    Jean Craighead George
    “ain’t”
    Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

  • #16
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  • #17
    Pat Conroy
    “She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides



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