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    Anne Michaud
    “As an emotional caretaker of her family, Jackie Kennedy was extraordinary. She defied the instructions of White House social advisers to make time for raising her children in as normal a way as possible. “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.” – Jackie Kennedy”
    ― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
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    Warren Kornblum
    “All you need to do is care.”
    ― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won
    tags: brand-purpose, business-inspiration, care, emotional-branding, human-connection, marketing-nonfiction, memorable-line, simple-truth
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    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
    ― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht
    tags: bookish-thoughts, classic-vibes, desire-and-devotion, goodreads-quotes, love-quotes, mind-over-matter, romance
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    “Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: christmas, life, musings, poisoned
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    K. Ritz
    “How can one man emit such noise by simply breathing?
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    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: character-voice, comic-relief, dark-fantasy, dry-humor, epic-fantasy, fantasy-readers, mood-break, roommate-from-hell, wry-observation
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    Rich DiSilvio
    “In one breath, you fear the government getting involved with unions, welfare, or immigration laws all, in essence, aimed at helping our poor fellow Americanyet, in another breath, you look for tariffs and even subsidies.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
    tags: american-history, book-quotes, class-politics, gilded-age, historical-fiction, industrial-america, labor-history, social-commentary
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    Max Nowaz
    “Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
    ― 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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    William L. Shirer
    “Hitler had never made any secret of, was that if the party ever took over Germany it would stamp out a German’s personal freedom, including that of Dr. Schacht and his business friends.”
    ― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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    Émile Zola
    “Her anger was rekindled.
    'You see, I keep it to myself, but, oh! it's more than I can stand. Don't say anything, sir; don't say anything , or I'll explode!'
    He said nothing, and she exploded all the same.”
    ― Émile Zola, Pot Luck
    tags: anger
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    Jonathan Swift
    “pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
    ― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
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    Jeannette Walls
    “Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that."
    "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?"
    "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
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    Philip Pullman
    “A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
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