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    C. Toni Graham
    “Stay true to your passion as it will lead you to your purpose.”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: choice, inspiring, life-and-living, motivating, optimism, positive, positive-attitude
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
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    “As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
    ― Colin Phelan, The Local School
    tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value
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    Rick Mystrom
    “What is Insulin?
    Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, thighs, belly—and generally every place you don’t want it to be. ”
    ― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
    tags: coach, glucose-control, guidance, learning, overweight, teaching, understanding, weight-control, weight-management
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    Michael Tobert
    “Thatched huts of mud sit humped in rows. Between the rows, a stagnant stream of sewage stews like thick soup bubbling in the clotted heat. Mosquitoes swarm. Garbage rots. Parvati gathers her sari about her and steps as lightly as she can down this gutter of filth. The boy stops outside one of the huts. Parvati and Sunil push aside the sacking that is over the doorway, stoop and step down onto a mud floor. Inside, there is no window, no light and no air. Only heat. Parvati puts her hand to her long elegant throat. Above her, one end of the roof is sagging as if about to collapse.
    ‘Bustee, very good,’ says the boy smiling.”
    ― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
    tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, heritage, historical-fiction, history, insight, love, multi-layered
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    Harvey Havel
    “The television set then came after her, chomping its teeth.  Upon reaching the living room, the television succeeded at eating her body bit-by-bit: first the legs, then the body, and finally her flailing arms.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: action, adult, complex, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, short-stories
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, inspiring, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty
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    Gregory Dickow
    “The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.”
    ― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
    tags: abmition, awakening, be-happy, believe, change, soul, spirituality, values, wander, writer
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    Max Nowaz
    “Stand in the machine there, let’s see what state your internal organs are in. The images
will be projected on screen, and I can go through the diagnosis with you, step by step.”
Brown did as he was told and soon images of his vital organs appeared on the screen.
 As you can see, your heart is slightly enlarged and your lungs and kidneys are not in
good shape either. Have you been experiencing any pain lately?”
“Not that I can think of. What can you do to help?”
“Difficult to say, you see you are dying” said the Doctor. You can see the
discolouration in your kidneys.” Brown strained his eyes.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, drama, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, suspense-thriller
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    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
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    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
    tags: cozy-mystery, cozy-romance, small-town-mystery
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    Richard Wright
    “From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was a black peasant who had gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the city; a black peasant whose life had been hopelessly snarled in the city, and who had at last fled the city—that same city which had lifted me in its burning arms and borne me toward alien and undreamed of shores of knowing.”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
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    Marcel Proust
    “And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards. ”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
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    Robert Frost
    “Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
    What I was walling in or walling out,
    And to whom I was like to give offense.”
    ― Robert Frost, North of Boston
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    Jane Austen
    “To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: nature
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    Nicholas Evans
    “Two weeks earlier than scheduled, she flew into Vancouver and signed on with Greenpeace.
    The work was neither taxing nor truly exciting but the people she met more than compensated and she forged many new friendships. The high points were the trips they made by sea kayak, exploring the wild inlets farther up the coast. They watched bears scoop salmon from the shallows and paddled among pods of orcas, so close you could have reached out and touched them. At night they camped at the water's edge, listening to the blow of whales in the bay and the distant howls of wolves in the forest above.”
    ― Nicholas Evans, The Divide
    tags: nature
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