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#1

“The more you harvest, the quicker and easier it becomes”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: advice, allotments, fruits, harvest, herbs, informative, organic, plants, tips, vegetables

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#2

“Here I am, my genome, my signature, an encapsulation of myself, everything you need to know about me. If I match, I can be found.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, intense, legal, legal-thrille, suspense

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#3

“After Bajju delivered a few beaming salutations, we walked northward up the makeshift, winding path through protruding brush, not much but a few stones placed here and there for balance and leverage upon ascending or descending. Having advanced about hundred steps from the street below, a sharp left leads to Bajju’s property, which begins with his family’s miniature garden – at the time any signs of fertility were mangled by dried roots which flailed like wheat straw, but within the day Bajju’s children vehemently delivered blows with miniature hoes in preparation for transforming such a plot into a no-longer-neglected vegetable garden. A few steps through the produce, or preferably circumventing all of it by taking a few extra steps around the perimeter, leads to the sky-blue painted home. Twisting left, hundreds of miles of rolling hills and the occasional home peeps out, bound below by demarcated farming steppes. If you’re lucky on a clear day and twist to the right, the monstrous, perpetually snow-capped Chaukhamba mountain monopolizes the distance just fifteen miles toward the direction of Tibet in the north.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: find-oneself, indian-education, journal, life-lessons, personal-identity, philosoph, poetry, political-history, teachings, value

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#4

“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on the form he had filled in for a dating agency. As an airline pilot you could be away just the right amount of time, when you needed a break from your love life, without facing awkward questions from her when you got back.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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

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#5

“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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#6

“That was a hell of a shot!”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

tags: action, action-thriller-fiction, drama, fiction, hilarious, mystery, private-investigator

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#7

“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name at the bottom of the list to add their child to the names of those who would return home, those beautiful children who would never be forgotten, as if their child’s name needed to be on the list to be remembered—to have been disappeared. ”
― Douglas Weissman

tags: adventure, depression, drama, family, fantasy, fiction, imagination, literary, pain

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#8

“What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, glory, hope, joy, light, prayer, self-love, truth

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#9

“I didn’t vomit today. Guess that’s progress. The sadist doesn’t care. Still dizzy, though. Chanelle says I’ll get use to it. She’d know. She’s been here over a year. I don’t see myself lasting that long.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

tags: action, dark, drama, fiction, journalism, love, mystery, pandemic, realistic, science

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#10

“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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#11

“And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

tags: belief, world

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#12

“Когда ты впервые пьешь чай с горцами балти, ты - чужак. Во второй раз - почетный гость. Третья чашка чая означает, что ты - часть семьи, а ради семьи они готовы на что угодно. Даже умереть.”
― Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

tags: friends, life, tea, three-cups-of-tea, world

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#13

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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

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#14

“But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, evolution, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, love, love-story, treacherous

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#15

“You too, Caesar?”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

tags: cheating, life-lessons, powerlessness, sad-but-true, tough-times, treachery

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#16

“Though your steps may falter
persevere with the climb,
You will achieve the summit
at the appropriate time.”
― Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifice For A Kingdom

tags: inspirational, tenacity-quotes

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#17

“They don't know what a stand up guy you are."
"Even more so, now that I have four legs, right?”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: chosen-family, curiosity, hardship, intrigue, legend, loss, murder, nature, secrets, young-adult-fiction

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#18

“Chase looked like a drowning man without a life preserver, and by the look in his eyes, he was going under for the third time.

“I knew you would be like the waters of the South Pacific Ocean.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“I liken people to different bodies of water,” he quickly explained.

“You what?”

“Each ocean has a different personality,” he said to clarify. “The Pacific Ocean is warmer and inviting, but the color is muddied in places. The Arctic Ocean is cold and very uninviting, one might even say that it is not very appealing, but it’s full of life. Then there is the South Pacific Ocean, warm, inviting, and crystal clear. It has this purity to it. Why, the coloring of the water is some of the brightest blue I’ve ever seen in my entire life. There are even places that you can see thirty meters down.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: adult-romance, drama, fiction, humour, literary-fiction, love, new-adult-fiction, romance, romance-fiction, romance-literature

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#19

“It’s true that AI can mimic the human brain, but it can also outperform us mere humans by discovering complex patterns that no human being could ever process and identify.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: ai, clinic, data, diagnosis, doctors, healthcare, medicine, patient-care, physicians, therapy

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#20

“Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

tags: dreams, friendship, imaginations, l-m-montgomery

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#21

“The life of a human being, let alone his personal freedom, is a matter of no importance. But the love of freedom is native to every human being and every nation, and cannot be suppressed in the long term. History teaches us that tyranny has never endured. And now we have blood-guilt on our conscience for the dreadful injustice of murdering the Jewish inhabitants.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

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#22

“Colton, what do you want people to know from your story?" Without hesitation, he looked her in the eye and said, "I want them to know that heaven is for real.”
― Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent

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#23

“THERE WILL BE no Thanksgiving this week,” announced Matthew when he came home at noontime the next day. “It seems we have no authority here in Connecticut to declare our own holidays. His Excellency, the new governor, will declare a Thanksgiving when it pleases him.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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#24

“A Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only. It is made on deck, so that it may be walked on if necessary.” THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

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#25

“So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not a single bad dream came over that wall for the rest of the night.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

tags: books

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