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“Be the person you are, succeed the best way you can and take pride in what you achieve.”

Life Philosophy Success Strength Achievement Individualism

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“Is it weakness that inspires a person to elevate their mind above the crowd and seek a different path? On the contrary. That is strength.”

Life Philosophy Strength

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“Their encounter had formed a strange chemical bond. Mitch, a hardened ruffian, had opened up the prison of his soul to her. And Kika, who led a bitterly puritanical existence, had started to make love to him on her sofa.”

Love Romance Passion Fiction Crime Drama Noir Mystery Suspense Irish

Book:Ruthless Shadow

Source: Ruthless Shadow

“I respect people who achieve things on the merits of their own hard work, skill, dedication, discipline and self-denial.”

Philosophy Work Respect

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person.”

Motivational Work Labor Dignity Workers

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“There are many things that money cannot buy. One of them is human decency.”

Life Philosophy Work Money Rich

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“So many supposedly “religious” people are always eager to pass moral judgments, condemn others as sinners or give lectures about how to practice religion.”

Life Lessons Religion Morality Judgment Hypocrisy

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“Real saints are rare to be found in the world, but there are plenty of sinners to go around—you know plenty of them, and if you’re honest, you’re probably one of them. So don’t fall for cheap lines like: “Our side is all good, and theirs is totally evil!” Real life is a lot more complex than that.”

Philosophy Life Lessons Morality Independence

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“When it comes to school bullying, many parents rely on teachers to solve the problem. That is a mistake. Teachers are directly responsible for the problem.”

Life Lessons Advice Parents Bullying School Children

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“Age is a mental construct. It is something that exists solely in an individual’s head.”

Life Philosophy Age

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“His deadpan expression turned bitter with a curl of his lip. “Save your sermon for some other sap. Nobody shares money—not even dead people. Why do you think they invented wills and trust funds?”

Fiction Mystery Crime Drama Noir Irish 1940s

Book:Ruthless Shadow

Source: Ruthless Shadow

“Gory frontline memories from war in the Philippines returned to Mitch as he submerged himself in the brush. He sunk deep into the leaves and mud, and stayed there. He remembered scenes from the jungle. The tremors of falling bombs. The smell of smoke.”

Fiction Crime Wwii Noir 1940s Postwar

Book:Ruthless Shadow

Source: Ruthless Shadow

“As a young man, Montgomery was noted by his superiors for his strong abilities as an analyst. He began the war in 1914 as a Lieutenant leading a platoon of 30 men. Within only four years, he had become the Chief of Staff of a division by age 30.”

Field Montgomery Bernard Marshal

Book:Bernard Montgomery's Art of War

Source: Bernard Montgomery's Art of War

“Like Montgomery, Musashi was a physically aggressive man who devoted his entire life to mastering the art of war. Also like Montgomery, Musashi was an independent thinker who believed a warrior needed to have a well-rounded intellectual background in order to truly master strategy.”

Field Montgomery Bernard Marshal Miyamoto Musashi Musashi Zita

Book:Bernard Montgomery's Art of War

Source: Bernard Montgomery's Art of War

“We should all be thinking people.”

Life Philosophy Free Thinking

Book:Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons

“He was made a prisoner in the Tower of London and stripped of his property. He remained imprisoned in the tower until 1646.”

America Family History England Prison London English Great Britain Tower Ballinger

Book:Makers of America: A Personal Family History

Source: Makers of America: A Personal Family History

“One of the most colorful and remarkable Ballinger family stories is the tale of how my direct ancestor, Joseph Ballinger Jr., became an American hero by supporting Major General Nathanael Greene’s army during the famed Battle of Guilford Court House in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.”

America Revolutionary War Ballinger Zita Guilford Nathanael Greene

Book:Makers of America: A Personal Family History

Source: Makers of America: A Personal Family History

“At this place in time, neither of them were foreign to each other. They were just two humans alone in the middle of the sky. The differences between them now were immaterial, like the faint whisper of traffic far below.”

Romance Mystery Crime Murder Thriller Asian Singapore Japanese

Book:Edge of Suspicion

Source: Edge of Suspicion

“No more lip from you. Otherwise there might be a misunderstanding.” Kika eyed the door. She considered making an escape. “Oh…I forgot to mention something. It’s terribly stormy outside tonight,” said Mitch, with an ominously sweet smile. “It’s raining bullets.”

Romance Fiction Crime Thriller Noir Fiction Irish

Book:Ruthless Shadow

Source: Ruthless Shadow

“They find joy in motion, which transforms their lives into unending odysseys. Their souls are brightly burning streaks of light across the universe—constantly traveling in an endless dance across space and time.”

Inspirational Literature Native American Dine Nomads Navajo

Book:Dine: A Tribute to the Navajo People

Source: Dine: A Tribute to the Navajo People

“The Diné are children of the sun. They are rugged and graceful people. They love the radiance of color and silver, the purity of nature, and the speed of horses. They have a gift for adaptation and creativity. They do everything with spontaneity and flair.”

Inspirational Literature Nature Native American Southwest Nomads

Book:Dine: A Tribute to the Navajo People

Source: Dine: A Tribute to the Navajo People

“Like many Swiss-Germans, Wisner was rugged man of nature who had a gift for machinery and engineering. His grandfather was Johannes Wiesner, a Swiss mercenary from the Canton of Zürich. The German surname “Wiesner” means “of the meadows.”

History Switzerland German Zurich

Book:Makers of America: A Personal Family History

Source: Makers of America: A Personal Family History

“During the 1950s, Grandfather Ray’s volunteerism led him to make one of the greatest achievements of his life—his leadership as an air rescue pilot and commander of the Civil Air Patrol.”

Hero Aircraft Pilot Ray Fletcher Civil Air Patrol

Book:Makers of America: A Personal Family History

Source: Makers of America: A Personal Family History

“The surname Fletcher belonged to my maternal grandfather and was one that he held very proudly. It is the name I legally adopted as my own surname at age 15. Fletcher is an English surname meaning “arrow maker” that was given to medieval craftsmen who designed and crafted arrows.”

Family England Name Fletcher

Book:Makers of America: A Personal Family History

Source: Makers of America: A Personal Family History

“Commando Group Sphinx refused to provide information about their dead soldier. They were a secretive group. Also, they did not keep in regular contact with their roving desert warriors.”

War Desert World War 2 Commando

Book:The Hidden Sphinx: A Tale of World War II Egypt

Source: The Hidden Sphinx: A Tale of World War II Egypt

“I am a direct descendant of Adolf (sometimes spelled Adolph) Herrmann Lothar Gosling, born in Osnabrück, appointed Consul General in New York City for the Kingdom of Hanover by King George V of Hanover.”

History Germany Hanover

Book:Makers of America: A Personal Family History

Source: Makers of America: A Personal Family History

“He fought alongside a royalist army against the usurpers during the Siege of Colchester and commanded those besieged in the city. He distinguished himself through his bravery.”

Family History Battle England Ballinger Royalist Aylett

Book:Makers of America: A Personal Family History

Source: Makers of America: A Personal Family History

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Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life LessonsRelated source material

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