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#1

“This stated, “Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted by the decision of your government to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam at the request of the Government of South Vietnam” The simple fact about this was that no such request was ever received by the Australian Government.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, historical-fiction, history-resource, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam, war-recount

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#2

“Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect word, the exquisite or incisive phrase, or exactly the right tone, he was the best. And when it came to delivery, he had no peer.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

tags: defeat, destroy, diplomacy, hidden-secrets, history, insight, insightful, strategies, truth, war

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#3

“I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts. Who”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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#4

“Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

tags: anxiety

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#5

“The world went on the same after all. The same things happened every morning. So what if they did not like her? She would go on the same.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

tags: autonomy, being-liked, confidence, life-lessons, self

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#6

“الأمة التي تُقَزِّم رجالها، لكي يصبحوا أدوات طيعة أكثر في يديها حتى من أجل أهداف مفيدة، سوف تجد أنه لا يمكن إنجاز شيئ عظيم برجال صغار”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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#7

“How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?”
― Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

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#8

“I made a promise to myself that if I came out of my situation alive, I had to make something of myself.”
― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

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#9

“The Black Prince is entombed at Canterbury Cathedral. His effigy reads: “Such as thou art, sometimes was I, Such as I am, such thou shalt be, I thought little on hour of death, So long as I enjoyed breath, On earth I had great riches, Land, houses, great treasure, Horses money and gold, But now a wretched captive am I, Deep in the ground, lo I lie, My beauty great, is all quite gone, My flesh is wasted to the bone.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: biographical, british-history, documentary, drama, fictional-drama, historical, isabella, king-edward-ii, research, royalty

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#10

“So, if a molester arranges to have his file sealed in exchange for a guilty plea, he could be transferred by the church, and if the pastor of the new church wanted to check his record, he wouldn’t have one?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

tags: abuse-of-power, child-abuse, church, cover-up, emotional, justice, peadophilia, priest, religion, sexual-abuse

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#11

“Honest self-reflection is true self-reflection.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: connection, empathy, experience, personal, reflections, social-commentary, thought, young-generation

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#12

“The reality is that the lives of the smallest patients are in our hands, and their clinical condition can change in an instant. No matter how many times you are involved in situations such as this, the physical stress and anxiety as well as the emotional and psychological effects of being immersed in that environment are dramatic and lasting on the human body, mind, and central nervous system. These effects are severe, and I firmly believe that they are cumulative over your lifetime.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, doctors, family-life, fiction, health, patients, realistic, ruin, strife

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#13

“The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

397 likes

#14

“Sally wiped the blood from Anderson’s mouth with her sleeve. She spoke to him, but also loud enough for all to hear. ‘Go find your son, Mr Anderson. This is our war now.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: action, dark, drama, fight-for-your-life, suspense-thriller

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#15

“The Trump marriage veered furthest away from my concept of the union — and surprised me most as a student of American politics. Donald and Melania seem to inhabit separate realms and to come together when necessary, when one could not move forward without the other. The presidency was one instance in which they were forced into a joint undertaking. If my choice of language sounds businesslike, that’s because that’s how I’ve come to view the Trumps. Having learned more about each partner’s history, I believe they are two highly ambitious individuals who benefit from their partnership. It’s a transaction: he gains a beautiful woman on his arm, a solid-seeming marriage, a son, and a savvy adviser. She gains wealth and international cachet.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships, trump

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#16

“She’d always loved the mountains, but as she turned back to face the spectacular seascape in the distance, she nearly lost her breath at the diversity of beauty to be found on this ancient, tiny island. She remembered a thought she’d had, just briefly, during her first day ever walking in Ireland, when they were going down through the forest on the way from Glenmalure to Glendalough. I could live my life doing this, she’d thought. And she’d done that, for a while.”
― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

tags: adventure, compelling, courage, dreams, emotional, fiction, reality, romance, seeking, survivor

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#17

“The war is over. Black people got rights now, just like us white folk. Besides…” he tapped his chest. “It’s what in here that counts.”
― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions

tags: i-don-t-want-to-go-there-again

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#18

“Discrediting WE Charity may have been the short-term goal of some politicians and journalists, but the long-term consequences will be a devasting loss for our children and those in the developing world. That is a tragedy.”
― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity

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#19

“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

606 likes

#20

“The heart of tragedy does not lie in stealing or taking away. Any featherpated girl can steal a heart. It lies in giving, in putting on, in adding, in smothering without the pillows.”
― T.H. White

tags: mothers, tragedy

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#21

“The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to "removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

tags: genital-mutilation, horrific-facts, vagina-fact

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#22

“In fact, Wilson tried to strengthen the Espionage Act with a provision giving broad censorship powers directly to the president. Moreover, with Wilson’s approval, his postmaster general used his new censorship powers to suppress all mail that was socialist, anti-British, pro-Irish, or that in any other way might, in his view, have threatened the war effort.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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#23

“People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical. One is a wound, the other an amputated limb, a withered petal compared to a snapped stem. Anything that grows closely enough to what it loves will eventually share the same roots. We can talk about loss, we can treat it and give it time, but biology still forces us to live according to certain rules: plants that are split down the middle don’t heal, they die.”
― Fredrik Backman

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#24

“Much of clinician burnout is due to spending time writing notes, placing orders, generating referrals, writing prior authorization letters, and creating patient communication. In other words, burnout is caused by physicians having to generate output! With the emergence of large language models that are used to train generative AI solutions, these use cases will be at the frontier of AI’s applications in healthcare.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: advice, advisements, care-givers, care-givers-support, experiences, health, helpful-resources, pain, success, suffering

135 likes

#25

“He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire."
"And you? What are your plans?"
"I have no plans to kill your father.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, aliens, compelling, dry, earth, fast-paced, humans, humour, intrigue, mission

385 likes

#26

“Forgive me darling, for having to abandon you, for having to make the ultimate sacrifice for a kingdom.”
― Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures

tags: erotica, fight, gender-equality, kidnapping, kingdoms, love, love-triangle, passionate, woman-power, women-s-rights

73 likes

#27

“She could see the headlines now.

‘Spinster dies alone in her condo. No one discovered her corpse for three days.’

She had been so preoccupied with work, that she’d neglected to do the grocery shopping and was now regretting it.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: compelling, contemporary-romance, enemies-to-lovers, fun, literary-fiction, opposites-attract, rom-com, romance-literature, small-town-romance, suspense

149 likes

#28

“And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to headquarters. Raya heard a loud popping sound in her mind, like a huge rubber band being snapped, like a glider plane released from a Piper Cub.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

419 likes

#29

“The boy registered them but didn’t answer, already turned inward. He was counting backward from a thousand in multiples of four while working multiplication tables of seven until they met.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: black-ops, exploits, fury, kidnap, military, mission, murder, sex-trafficking, suspense, violent

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#30

“The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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