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    Claudia Clark
    “At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama,’ and an overly ambitious Obama, who perhaps thought that was his cue, headed toward the podium.  Perhaps catching the president’s movement out of the corner of her eye, Merkel thought quickly, and without even looking up from her notes, she told the excited American president, in English, ‘Not yet, dear Mr. President, dear Barack Obama.’ Obama sheepishly returned to his seat to allow the chancellor to finish her speech.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: american-history, diplomacy, european-history, history, international, literary, politics, speeches, women-in-politics
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “     ‘That has to be Mr Davis,’ Semilla said with an air of complete confidence as she stared at the inferno rising above the roof tops.
         ‘How can you be so certain?’ Burt questioned looking slightly pensive.
         Semilla gave a shrug. ‘Let’s face it he’s been in the vicinity of one or two little disasters lately.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: colony, dystopian, fiction, gripping, humour, life-forms, mystery, planets, sci-fi, unexpected
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    “When a trapper entered the valley, I reflected back on my life as an Indian. "I'm sure as an Indian living  on the plains, I trapped animals for their fur and for their meat, I took what I needed for survival, but doing it for profit somehow rubbed me the wrong way”
    ― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower
    tags: environmental, generational, hippies, magic, marijuana, mystery, natural-world, seventies, sixties, unfaithfulness
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    Max Nowaz
    “Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to 
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? 
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction-writing, humour, mystery, thriller
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    Sybrina Durant
    “Teach a child a useful skill. Build confidence and self-esteem that lasts a lifetime.”
    ― Sybrina Durant, Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces
    tags: activity, children-s-book, children-s-picture-book, kids-activity-book, kids-book, kids-books, kids-reading, picture-book
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    Dean Mafako
    “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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    Steven Decker
    “The structure was like an aquarium filled with air instead of water, and Dani and Zephyr were the “fish” inside, there for the enjoyment of the Water People, or for whatever other purpose their captors had in mind.”
    ― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time
    tags: dystopian, escape, fast-paced, fear, fiction, gripping, mystery, plot-turns, unexpected, unknown
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    Karl Braungart
    “I am calling to tell you that Colonel Yildiz has made travel arrangements for you, Tara, and me. We are flying to Istanbul tomorrow. I’ll call you back and with the departure time. Do you understand?”
    ― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity
    tags: cia, cold-war, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, russia, series, spy
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    Karl Marx
    “Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations as boni patres familias [good heads of the household].”
    ― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 3
    tags: climate-change, earth, ecology, ecosocialism, environmentalism, marx, marxism, property, society
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    Mitch Albom
    “I think people expect too much from marriage today,' he said. 'They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience.
    . . . twenty good minutes here, forty good minutes there, it adds up to something beautiful. The trick is when things aren't so great, you don't junk the whole thing. It's okay to have an argument. It's okay that the other one nudges you a little, bothers you a little. It's part of being close to someone.
    But the joy you get from that same closeness--when you watch your children, when you wake up and smile at each other--that . . . is a blessing. People forget that.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
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    John Berendt
    “If there were not a bridge from Venice to Europe, Europe would be an island”
    ― John Berendt
    tags: city-of-falling-angels
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    Walt Whitman
    “I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
    The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
    shall duly flame again.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: lost, lost-love, lovers, the-notebook
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “В человеке тебе принадлежит только то, что ты в нем изменил…”
    ― Эрих Мария Ремарк, "Sag mir, daß du mich liebst" : Erich Maria Remarque - Marlene Dietrich, Zeugnisse einer Leidenschaft
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