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#1

“The first time the extent of this problem was obvious to me was when I was hanging out with a small group of people in which one unironically said, “I would not consider dating someone who was not regularly seeing a psychologist”—and others in the group agreed with them. It was at that point I realized that some psychologists were convincing their patients that no person could be mentally healthy without regularly visiting them. They had so thoroughly incepted a dependency in their patients that they had created a cultural identity around that dependency.”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

tags: cultures, entertaining, guide, mankind, pragmatism, provocative, rebuilding, religion, traditional-cultures, wide-ranging

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#2

“The Wallace-Ali relationship reflects the great mythic “hero’s journey.” Wallace might be seen as the Mentor/Wise Old Man, Ali as the naïve young hero who grows as the story evolves.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

tags: aide, awareness, birds, challenging, emotions, help, insight, perceptions, raw, reflective

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#3

“She circled and rolled the pan, making sure to seal and burn the ragged edges. Pleased to discover the smell of his burning flesh wasn’t that much different than the bacon.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

tags: action-packed, compelling, conspiracy, drama, dystopian, fears, gripping, horror, monstrous, technology

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#4

“Around two or three times a year, we would notice the wind blowing harder than usual, which meant a giant wave was coming.”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, general, mystery, past, plot-turns, science, twists

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#5

“I came to Australia as a damaged grown up adult, and it took me years to heal, so my perspective of the national Australian pride is not full. It [assimilation] penetrates, it’s
accepted, it’s tolerated, and I think the third generation it is absorbed. I don’t know about the second generation, - Holocaust survivor, Kitia Altman”
― Peter Brune, Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66

tags: australia, culture, different-culture, documentary, fitting-in, government, moving, reception, revelatory, war

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#6

“Some twenty-five miles to the north, the army of Bala was making progress as fast as it could towards the Coe Mountains. When the thunderous noise of the destruction in the Pass of Ing reached them, they turned to see the pass erupting like an angry volcano. The flames, even at this distance, were terrifying and shock was etched on every face as each man considered the defiant bravery of the day before, a bravery that could have had them consumed by withering fire.
Robert Reid – White Light Red Fire”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#7

“Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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#8

“The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

tags: genocide, history, rwanda, united-nations

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#9

“Between the Left and the Right, Germany lacked a politically powerful middle class, which in other countries—in France, in England, in the United States—had proved to be the backbone of democracy”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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#10

“We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

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#11

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#12

“Since he had turned his back upon the fight his fears had been wondrously magnified. Death about to thrust him between the shoulder blades was far more dreadful than death about to smite him between the eyes. When he thought of it later, he conceived the impression that it is better to view the appalling than to be merely within hearing.”
― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

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#13

“God’s mercy and grace over y circumstances propelled my faith and caused me to experience significant spiritual growth.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: covid, dialysis, eye-opening, good-health, grief, inspiring, personal, transformation, wellbeing

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#14

“Even some of Bill and Hillary’s harshest political critics admire their success as parents.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#15

“Well, thank you, Charles. Can I have another one of those for Aideen?”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel

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#16

“Home was the one place he wanted to forget, the place from which he’d run away but never could escape. And, yes, home was the place he’d been instructed to leave—the place where the trouble began and the trouble would end.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: drama, fiction, investigate, mystery, page-turner, plot-driven, puppeteering, survival, thriller, treachery

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#17

“Love is the Answer, God is the Cure!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

tags: inspirational, love, self-help, survivor

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#18

“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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#19

“Dancer and Waif sprinted toward the edge. Picking up speed. Bad Ass on his one real leg doing a great job of keeping up. Kind of.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

tags: action-packed, ai, clandestine, experiment, genetic-engineering, horror, military, sci-fi, science-fiction, suspense

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#20

“The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion to supersede and expel the Jewish religion. And to find pretence and admission for these things, they must have supposed his power or his wisdom imperfect, or his will changeable; and the changeableness of the will is the imperfection of the judgement.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: assassin, imperfection, jewish, jews, judaism, judgement, murder, pretense, wisdom, yahweh

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#21

“Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.”
― Terry Goodkind

tags: knowledge

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#22

“The road goes ever on and on”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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#23

“Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

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#24

“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
― Anne Rice

tags: benediction, paraphrased

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#25

“And so immediately after you say, "I am tired" or "I am
broke" or "I am sick" or "I am late" or "I am overweight" or "I am
old," the Genie says, "Your wish is my command.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

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#26

“Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan

tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, futuristic, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology

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#27

“He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.”
“Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
“Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: betrayal, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, murder-mystery, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense

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#28

“The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: ancient-athens, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, treacherous

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#29

“You realize assuming can often lead to getting into trouble.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, child, danger, dark, different-worlds, drama, fascinating, literary, love, mystery

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#30

“Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

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