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    “Whatever’s eating at you, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.”
    ― Ken Cruickshank
    tags: novel, psychological-thriller, suspense, thriller
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    “Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. There were times when I worried. Worried a lot.”
    ― Ken Cruickshank
    tags: chronic-disease, family, inspirational, memoir
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    “Looking back on the eruption, asking God why I had somehow been chosen to be afflicted with this damn disease, the fairer question would have been, “Why not me?” Why should I have been exempted from holding the proverbial short straw?”
    ― Ken Cruickshank
    tags: inspirational, memoir
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    Colleen Hoover
    “God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
    ― W.E.B. DuBois
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
    tags: friends
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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    Alan Paton
    “Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
    ― Alan Paton
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    Michael Pollan
    “He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
    ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    tags: americans, chocolate, chocolate-cake, connotations, food, french, guilt, politics, semantics, word-association
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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    James A. Michener
    “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
    ― James A. Michener
    tags: humor, missed-opportunities, open-mindedness, travel
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    “Money is a god whose religion is greed.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: cash-quotes, faith-quotes, god-quotes, greed-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, money-quote, money-quotes, religion-quotations, religion-quotes, true-wealth-quotes
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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    Jerry Seinfeld
    “A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
    ― Jerry Seinfeld
    tags: bookstore-thinking-evidence
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    Jim Butcher
    “Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Skin Game
    tags: funny, humor
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    Jonathan Kellerman
    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    ― Jonathan Kellerman
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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
    tags: learning, reading, seuss
    23694 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
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    Lisa Scottoline
    “I fool you. I fool everyone.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
    10860 likes

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    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    ― Margaret Fuller
    tags: read, reader, reading
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  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    Charles Dickens
    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
    tags: humor, laughter
    5592 likes



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