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Why I am Passionate and Dedicated 1000% to producing and bringing my books Loving Summer, Bitter Frost, and other book series to the Screen is because these are the very books that I was cyber-bullied on. When confronted by bullies, you don't shy away, but you Fight Back. Many people have not read the books, but believe fake news and damaging slanders against them and me as a person because it was a marketing strategy used to sell my books' rival books. By bringing these very books to the screen, people can see how different my books are to theirs. Also, most of all, it is pretty darn fun and fierce for me, as a female Asian writer, director, and producer to bring these fan favorite books to screen.
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Kailin Gow (Loving Summer (Loving Summer, #1))
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This “who’s on top” banter continues until one wrestler (who has slyly gone to hide behind a chair) leaps upon his rival with an animal cry. The pair then proceeds to create a series of tableaux that appear to be from the Kama Sutra, Vatsyayana's ancient Indian textbook of carnal satisfaction. Occasionally, the tension is broken by a wrestler who picks up a large object, such as a table, to throw on the other's head, as if suddenly disgusted by his forbidden love.
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A.C. Kemp (The Perfect Insult for Every Occasion)
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Few watched the human homeworld as she did, which meant there were fewer rivals for her harvests. Her predations. Reijik Station, she mused. Her fingers twitched in their plasteel cage as she wondered what manner of feast this harvest might provide.
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C.S. Friedman (This Alien Shore (The Outworlds series Book 1))
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Democratic periodicals in the North warned that the governor’s stance would compromise highly profitable New York trade connections with Virginia and other slave states. Seward was branded “a bigoted New England fanatic.” This only emboldened Seward’s resolve to press the issue. He spurred the Whig-dominated state legislature to pass a series of antislavery laws affirming the rights of black citizens against seizure by Southern agents, guaranteeing a trial by jury for any person so apprehended, and prohibiting New York police officers and jails from involvement in the apprehension of fugitive slaves.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln)
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He spurred the Whig-dominated state legislature to pass a series of antislavery laws affirming the rights of black citizens against seizure by Southern agents, guaranteeing a trial by jury for any person so apprehended, and prohibiting New York police officers and jails from involvement in the apprehension
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln)
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These (Shakespeare, Milton, and Victor Hugo) not only knit and knot the logical texture of the style with all the dexterity and strength of prose; they not only fill up the pattern of the verse with infinite variety and sober wit; but they give us, besides, a rare and special pleasure, by the art, comparable to that of counterpoint, with which they follow at the same time, and now contrast, and now combine, the double pattern of the texture and the verse. Here the sounding line concludes; a little further on, the well-knit sentence; and yet a little further, and both will reach their solution on the same ringing syllable. The best that can be offered by the best writer of prose is to show us the development of the idea and the stylistic pattern proceed hand in hand, sometimes by an obvious and triumphant effort, sometimes with a great air of ease and nature. The writer of verse, by virtue of conquering another difficulty, delights us with a new series of triumphs. He follows three purposes where his rival followed only two; and the change is of precisely the same nature as that from melody to harmony.
-ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Essays in the Art of Writing)
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There was nothing like getting your cock sucked by a dragon. Their saliva was pure ecstasy all on its own. Alessio was one of the most skilled cock suckers I’ve experienced. Still, his skill didn’t rival Donovan’s or Tylendel’s. But damn, he was fantastic! He was moaning as he sucked my cock and I knew he was savoring my precum as it leaked from my slit. I could feel his hands gripping my ass cheeks as he bobbed on my dick.
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Nicholas Bella (House of Theoden: Season Two Complete Boxset (The New Haven Series))
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Remember? We have a rematch. And this time, it’s my turn to shine.” With his goggles on, Sterling got into his stance, keeping an eye on the Professor.
“Oh? I didn’t realize that you were so dull.” I put my goggles on and took my stance as well, making sure that Professor Trinkott was within my line of vision. Challenge accepted.
“Ha, ha, joke all you want, Alvara. Just don’t come crying to me afterwards.”
“I don’t cry when I win.
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iLana Markarov (The Timekeeper's Secret (Timeless Fate #1))
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Show her that you value her company and prefer being at home to being out. Esteem her in the presence of your friends and children. Praise and show admiration for her good acts; and if she ever does anything foolish, advise her patiently. Pray together at home and go to church; when you come back home, let each ask the other the meaning of the readings and the prayers. If you are overtaken by poverty, remember Peter and Paul, who were more honored than kings or rich men, though they spent their lives in hunger and thirst. Remind one another that nothing in life is to be feared, except offending God. If your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks.
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John Chrysostom (On Marriage and Family Life (Popular Patristics Series))
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It is expected of them as it is expected of those who come from the Black Syndicate. We are a feared Court, probably only rivaled by one other, but there are still areas of light there. The people of the Fire Court know what they guard and protect so valiantly and do not mind being called such things. There is still love and loyalty and laughter in the darkness if you know where to look, even if others do not believe it exists.” “When you described your home, nothing sounded dark about it.” “Because I know where to look,” he replied, the corner of his mouth turning up slightly. “And you may be a pain in my ass sometimes, but I would never call you wicked. I would never fear you,” she said.
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Melissa K. Roehrich (Lady of Darkness (Lady of Darkness Series #1))
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wide open falsehood
the clandestine truths
rival till the end
in a series of duels
pardon the drapery language I choose
Waltz in Vienna has taught me to use
every tall room a fiction
leatherbound treasure books
up to the ceiling
gold spine upon spine
the guile and the treason
the faith and allegiance
wide open falsehood
the clandestine truths
rival till the end
in a series of duels
pardon the drapery language I choose
the author grew fat to imagine
his lead pen careening
gave voice to the scheming
an Aryan cabale to dethrone
the guile and the treason
the faith and allegiance
to the empire unknown
the baron and his mistress
dine in a fine banquet hall
as rebel insurgents
plot in the attic space crawl
the guile and the treason
the faith and allegiance
now lie in my hand
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Natalie Merchant
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Several dozen of the non-English Wikipedias have, each, one article on Pokémon, the trading-card game, manga series, and media franchise. The English Wikipedia began with one article and then a jungle grew. There is a page for “Pokémon (disambiguation),” needed, among other reasons, in case anyone is looking for the Zbtb7 oncogene, which was called Pokemon (for POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor), until Nintendo’s trademark lawyers threatened to sue. There are at least five major articles about the popular-culture Pokémons, and these spawn secondary and side articles, about the Pokémon regions, items, television episodes, game tactics, and all 493 creatures, heroes, protagonists, rivals, companions, and clones, from Bulbasaur to Arceus. All are carefully researched and edited for accuracy, to ensure that they are reliable and true to the Pokémon universe, which does not actually, in some senses of the word, exist.
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James Gleick (The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood)
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The essence of Roosevelt’s leadership, I soon became convinced, lay in his enterprising use of the “bully pulpit,” a phrase he himself coined to describe the national platform the presidency provides to shape public sentiment and mobilize action. Early in Roosevelt’s tenure, Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, joined a small group of friends in the president’s library to offer advice and criticism on a draft of his upcoming message to Congress. “He had just finished a paragraph of a distinctly ethical character,” Abbott recalled, “when he suddenly stopped, swung round in his swivel chair, and said, ‘I suppose my critics will call that preaching, but I have got such a bully pulpit.’ ” From this bully pulpit, Roosevelt would focus the charge of a national movement to apply an ethical framework, through government action, to the untrammeled growth of modern America. Roosevelt understood from the outset that this task hinged upon the need to develop powerfully reciprocal relationships with members of the national press. He called them by their first names, invited them to meals, took questions during his midday shave, welcomed their company at day’s end while he signed correspondence, and designated, for the first time, a special room for them in the West Wing. He brought them aboard his private railroad car during his regular swings around the country. At every village station, he reached the hearts of the gathered crowds with homespun language, aphorisms, and direct moral appeals. Accompanying reporters then extended the reach of Roosevelt’s words in national publications. Such extraordinary rapport with the press did not stem from calculation alone. Long before and after he was president, Roosevelt was an author and historian. From an early age, he read as he breathed. He knew and revered writers, and his relationship with journalists was authentically collegial. In a sense, he was one of them. While exploring Roosevelt’s relationship with the press, I was especially drawn to the remarkably rich connections he developed with a team of journalists—including Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White—all working at McClure’s magazine, the most influential contemporary progressive publication. The restless enthusiasm and manic energy of their publisher and editor, S. S. McClure, infused the magazine with “a spark of genius,” even as he suffered from periodic nervous breakdowns. “The story is the thing,” Sam McClure responded when asked to account for the methodology behind his publication. He wanted his writers to begin their research without preconceived notions, to carry their readers through their own process of discovery. As they educated themselves about the social and economic inequities rampant in the wake of teeming industrialization, so they educated the entire country. Together, these investigative journalists, who would later appropriate Roosevelt’s derogatory term “muckraker” as “a badge of honor,” produced a series of exposés that uncovered the invisible web of corruption linking politics to business. McClure’s formula—giving his writers the time and resources they needed to produce extended, intensively researched articles—was soon adopted by rival magazines, creating what many considered a golden age of journalism. Collectively, this generation of gifted writers ushered in a new mode of investigative reporting that provided the necessary conditions to make a genuine bully pulpit of the American presidency. “It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the progressive mind was characteristically a journalistic mind,” the historian Richard Hofstadter observed, “and that its characteristic contribution was that of the socially responsible reporter-reformer.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism)
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The moderate person contains opposing capacities to the nth degree. A moderate person can start out hot on both ends, both fervent in a capacity for rage and fervent in a desire for order, both Apollonian at work and Dionysian at play, both strong in faith and deeply doubtful, both Adam I and Adam II. A moderate person can start out with these divisions and rival tendencies, but to live a coherent life, the moderate must find a series of balances and proportions. The moderate is forever seeking a series of temporary arrangements, embedded in the specific situation of the moment, that will help him or her balance the desire for security with the desire for risk, the call of liberty with the need for restraint. The moderate knows there is no ultimate resolution to these tensions. Great matters cannot be settled by taking into account just one principle or one viewpoint. Governing is more like sailing in a storm: shift your weight one way when the boat tilts to starboard, shift your weight the other way when it tilts to port—adjust and adjust and adjust to circumstances to keep the semblance and equanimity of an even keel.
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David Brooks (The Road to Character)
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businesses that could benefit from the way networks behave, and this approach yielded some notable successes. Richard came from a different slant. For twenty years, he was a ‘strategy consultant’, using economic analysis to help firms become more profitable than their rivals. He ended up co-founding LEK, the fastest-growing ‘strategy boutique’ of the 1980s, with offices in the US, Europe and Asia. He also wrote books on business strategy, and in particular championed the ‘star business’ idea, which stated that the most valuable venture was nearly always a ‘star’, defined as the biggest firm in a high-growth market. In the 1990s and 2000s, Richard successfully invested the money he had made as a management consultant in a series of star ventures. He also read everything available about networks, feeling intuitively that they were another reason for business success, and might also help explain why some people’s careers took off while equally intelligent and qualified people often languished. So, there were good reasons why Greg and Richard might want to write a book together about networks. But the problem with all such ‘formal’ explanations is that they ignore the human events and coincidences that took place before that book could ever see the light of day. The most
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Richard Koch (Superconnect: How the Best Connections in Business and Life Are the Ones You Least Expect)
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During the 2016 US presidential campaign, the hatred shown toward Hillary Clinton far outstripped even the most virulent criticisms that could legitimately be pinned on her. She was linked with “evil” and widely compared to a witch, which is to say that she was attacked as a woman, not as a political leader. After her defeat, some of those critics dug out the song “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead,” sung in The Wizard of Oz to celebrate the Witch of the East’s death—a jingle already revived in the UK at the time of Margaret Thatcher’s death in 2013. This reference was brandished not only by Donald Trump’s electors, but also by supporters of Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s main rival in the primaries. On Sanders’ official site, a fundraising initiative was announced under the punning title “Bern the Witch”—an announcement that the Vermont senator’s campaign team took down as soon as it was brought to his attention. Continuing this series of limp quips, the conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh quipped, “She’s a witch with a capital B”—he can’t have known that, at the Salem witch trials in the seventeenth century, a key figure had already exploited this consonance by calling his servant, Sarah Churchill, who was one of his accusers, “bitch witch.” In reaction, female Democrat voters started sporting badges calling themselves “Witches for Hillary” or “Hags for Hillary.”48
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Mona Chollet (In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial)
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Meanwhile, he continued to speak out on behalf of black citizens. In March 1846, a terrifying massacre took place in Seward’s hometown. A twenty-three-year-old black man named William Freeman, recently released from prison after serving five years for a crime it was later determined he did not commit, entered the home of John Van Nest, a wealthy farmer and friend of Seward’s. Armed with two knives, he killed Van Nest, his pregnant wife, their small child, and Mrs. Van Nest’s mother. When he was caught within hours, Freeman immediately confessed. He exhibited no remorse and laughed uncontrollably as he spoke. The sheriff hauled him away, barely reaching the jail ahead of an enraged mob intent upon lynching him. “I trust in the mercy of God that I shall never again be a witness to such an outburst of the spirit of vengeance as I saw while they were carrying the murderer past our door,” Frances Seward told her husband, who was in Albany at the time. “Fortunately, the law triumphed.” Frances recognized at once an “incomprehensible” aspect to the entire affair, and she was correct. Investigation revealed a history of insanity in Freeman’s family. Moreover, Freeman had suffered a series of floggings in jail that had left him deaf and deranged. When the trial opened, no lawyer was willing to take Freeman’s case. The citizens of Auburn had threatened violence against any member of the bar who dared to defend the cold-blooded murderer. When the court asked, “Will anyone defend this man?” a “death-like stillness pervaded the crowded room,” until Seward rose, his voice strong with emotion, and said, “May it please the court, I shall remain counsel for the prisoner until his death!
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln)
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By seeking to remake all the existing traditions and institutions deemed to be flawed beyond reform, totalitarian democracy came in full collision with its liberal rival and became, in [Jacob] Talmon's words, 'an exclusive doctrine represented by a vanguard of the enlightened who justified themselves in the use of coercion against those who refused to be free and virtuous.' Liberal democracy, he argued, proceeds differently. It acknowledges uncertainty, imperfection, and limited knowledge and works with the assumption that individuals may not be coerced into following a predetermined path and that they are capable of reaching a state of order and prosperity through a gradual process of trial and error.
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Aurelian Craiutu (Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes (Haney Foundation Series))
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The vital ingredient that was always missing from idealism and panpsychism was mathematics. Scientific materialism used math, and its rivals didn’t, and that’s why science became the dominant ideology. If idealism and panpsychism are able to use math too, they can replace science. Ontological Fourier mathematics with its dimensionless (mental) and dimensional (material) waves is how the gap is bridged between mind and matter
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Mike Hockney (Psychophysics (The God Series Book 27))
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You just grew a jungle in your kitchen, rivaled Elsa in the do you want to build a snowman department, and invented the best new drink with your mind. All the rest is fluff.
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Aidy Award (Dragons Love Curves Series #2-2.5, 4)
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To explain how we got to this seemingly intractable place, a little history is required—never a simple proposition in a part of the world where rivaling versions of the past are a dense thicket. The 1930s saw a series of Arab revolts against the influx of Jewish migrants to Palestine, which was then under British control. This wave of Jewish immigration was regarded by many Palestinians as a colonial imposition, a perception that was further cemented when British troops and local police put down the Arab uprising with tremendous force, fueling further resentment. When Palestine was partitioned in 1947, a move with overwhelming Arab opposition, and Israel declared statehood the next year, the first Arab-Israeli war was locked in. These were the years that Palestinians call the Nakba, or catastrophe: roughly 750,000 Palestinians were expelled, hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed, and thousands were killed, with many of the horrifying truths about these atrocities finally escaping Israel’s own Shadow Lands in recent years. Of course Palestinians would resist such ethnic cleaning with violence of their own. Yet rather than seeing Arab resistance for what it was—a nationalist, anti-colonial battle over land and self-determination (with some anti-Semitic elements, to be sure)—many influential Zionist leaders portrayed the entire Palestinian cause as nothing but more irrational Jew-hatred, a seamless continuation of the very same anti-Semitism that had resulted in the Holocaust, and that therefore needed to be crushed with the kind of militarized force that Jews had not been able to marshal in Nazi-controlled Europe. Within this imaginary, the Palestinian, as the Jew’s new eternal enemy, was treated as so illegitimate, so irrational, so other, that Israelis believed themselves to be justified in reenacting many of the forms of violence, dehumanizing propaganda, and forced displacement that had targeted and uprooted the Jewish people throughout Europe for centuries, a process that continues to this day with ongoing home demolitions, Israeli settlement expansions, targeted assassinations, settler rampages through Palestinian communities, openly discriminatory laws, and walled ghettos into which Palestinians are corralled.
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Naomi Klein (Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World)
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Mohammed was a narcissist and egoist, determined that no one else should ever rival his glory and importance and so he deliberately set out to make it impossible for any Muslim to surpass him. It was very clever for Mohammed to call himself the seal of prophets and thus for the Koran to be the last word – cutting off any future changes, and making Mohammed’s elevated status as God’s messenger permanent. The Koran is asserted to be the verbatim word of God, the last word of God, the final revelation. One has to wonder why God had to make several attempts at his revelation in the first place, using several prophets. Why not just one prophet and one revelation, explaining everything forever? Why bother with a string of Jewish prophets, before inexplicable switching to an Arab prophet to be the most important prophet of all? Muslims believe that not Mohammed but Allah was the founder of Islam. Why did Allah not simply appear to the world and declare his message? Why use these bizarre intermediaries – these strange prophets? It makes no sense at all.
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Mike Hockney (All the Rest is Propaganda (The God Series Book 12))
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Since the time of Edison, American business innovation and entrepreneurship have given the United States a technological edge over geopolitical rivals and ensured U.S. military supremacy. Ford’s mass-produced trucks and cars proved critical in many battles of World War I in overcoming Germany’s advantageous access to European railroad transport. Over the course of the war, the United States manufactured more than 70 percent of all allied war material, with Ford Motor Company alone contributing more than the entire Italian national war effort. By the 1940s, the U.S. domestic oil industry, dominated by Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, constituted two-thirds of world oil production and was a crucial factor in closing Britain’s fuel deficit compared to Germany and Japan.
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Amy Myers Jaffe (Energy's Digital Future: Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security (Center on Global Energy Policy Series))
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The United States of Ancient Persia While ancient Persia could be best understood as an absolute divine right monarchy, in many other respects it better conforms to the values we associate with modern liberal democracies than most of its rivals. The Persian Empire prohibited slavery, allowed women to own property, granted considerable local autonomy to conquered states, prioritized education and trade, and permitted an unprecedented level of religious freedom. In terms of basic human rights it is a far more accurate precursor to modern states than ancient Greece could ever have been.
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Tom Head (World History 101: From Ancient Mesopotamia and the Viking Conquests to NATO and WikiLeaks, an Essential Primer on World History)
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The examples of Russia and Iran offer a more dismal prospect to the consequences of the loss of petro-power by key states via the advent of digital transformations of the energy world. A declining need for oil might lead to more, not less, geopolitical disorder. One possibility is that oil states that were previously powerful will not be willing to go quietly into the night as their oil power diminishes, but rather will assert themselves in different ways. In the case of Russia and Iran, to date, that assertiveness has included increased exercise of hard power through cyber and military means. Another outcome, perhaps even more troubling, would be if powerful oil producers felt the need to destroy the oil sectors of their rivals, in hopes of ensuring that their own oil assets are not the ones that get stranded.
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Amy Myers Jaffe (Energy's Digital Future: Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security (Center on Global Energy Policy Series))
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Here’s to falling for you even more than I already was. You’ve got a hold of something inside of me. I can’t wait until the next time I can kiss you.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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PS. I lied when I said I would only be thinking about the meeting today. I couldn’t get my mind off last night. You’ve wrecked me for life.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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You’re not spinning out of control and freaking out? His dick must have some personality-changing abilities.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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He’s going to lose it because you’re going to look smoking hot. Two can play this game, sweetheart. And quite frankly, women are better at it.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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It took you less than two minutes to flirt with another man. You won’t be sharing a dance with him or anyone else tonight. Not if I have anything to say about it.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I’ll try, but you make it awfully hard. And if another man approaches you… I don’t know what I’ll do.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Shit, women are hard work.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Do you know how bad I want you? I have half the nerve to stop the elevator and fuck you three ways to Sunday right here.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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It’s careless of me, but I can’t seem to slow down with her. My heart races when I’m with her. I hope hers does too.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Because you promised to fuck me against that wall and I don’t like when people go back on their word.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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That’s it, beauty. You’re a fucking queen.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I enjoyed my appetizer.” Can she get any better?
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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He claimed you? Holy shit on a stick. How do you get this and I get ‘Do you want to do it?’ It’s unfair.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Maybe great sex will have me forgetting about bad things. There’s only one way to find out.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Let me watch as I make love to you for the first time.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Come with me. Let’s come together the first time we make love.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Even with all the risk, he’s a part of me now and I know there’s no looking back. I couldn’t stop it even if I wanted to. And that right there just might be the start of my demise.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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It’s okay to love something even though it’s not here now.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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If I let you fall through my grasp because of something Aiden said, I’m sorry. What kind of man does that make me? “You deserve a partner who will stand up to him and fight for you. Hopefully, I’ll get there soon because I can’t see life without you.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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My soul feels like it just cracked open and sprung a new life of its own. I slowly shake my head because I can’t believe how many years I’ve let her run to another guy for fear I would lose my best friend.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Dori’s worth dealing with Aiden’s wrath.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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How else will I ever be able to show her I love her like to the depths of my soul love her? She’s my person. She always has been and I can’t—no, I won’t—let her go this time.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I’d give anything to hold her every night for the rest of my life.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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If I can’t have her, at least I’ll be taking a billion dollars from the guy who can.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I’m not losing a billion dollars because Dori decided to get into bed with him.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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The universe is not on my side when it comes to her. Maybe it’s for the best.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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At least I don’t want to kill him anymore.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I wish I didn’t love her because this would be a lot easier if I didn’t.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Someone should tie me up and throw me in a cage so I can never get out.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Damn. You’re getting tighter.” He slows down and teases me.
“Then fuck me harder and stretch me open. Show me how bad you want me.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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She stole a piece of me and I’m wondering if she’ll give it back or keep it safe.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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She could break me in half. All she has to do is walk away, and that’s a terrifying thought.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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She’s beautiful in anything she has on—or off, for that matter.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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At this rate, I’ll be drunk before she finishes her glass of wine.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Does she seriously think I’ll follow her and ‘fuck it out’ right now?
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I used to think there was a never for us. But now I know there’s never been a never with you. It’s always been you. I want to be with you. So, would you want to take a chance with me and see if we can figure this out together?
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I don’t know what’s worse. Him checking out every woman that enters the restaurant or a conversation that bores me to tears.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I clutch at my heart because he could crush, stomp on, and throw it away without a second thought. I know this because I’ve wanted him since I was ten, and he’s done it to me more than once.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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My attraction to him is wickedly savage. I have so many naughty things I want to do with him.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Jesus, Dori. Those emerald eyes get me every time.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I’m playing with fire, but this man causes me to do things that take me down a slippery slope to heartache.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Dorothy Fisher’s my dream girl and still so fucking unbelievably gorgeous. Combine that with her touching me tonight and I thought I was going to lose it. I had to hold myself back because I didn’t want my dick to tear a hole in my pants. It took all my restraint to keep it down.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Bringing up my sexual interests is a dick comment, considering he’s the one who introduced me to the particular kink I like. Whatever. That’s irrelevant right now.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Jamison Stone may think he’s done his homework, but he doesn’t know all the tricks I have up my sleeve. One way or another, I will find out what he’s hiding. He can count on it.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Just look at him. That’s nothing but a billion-dollar, hot as molten lava god.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Oh, a woman who’s brave enough to go toe to toe with me. Even more beautiful.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I’m glad you didn’t get the memo. This dress is something else. I’m glad I didn’t miss seeing you in this.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Don’t worry, beauty. You have all night to touch me. Right now, I want to taste you.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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We have sex once and you think you can share my food?
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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This woman confuses the fuck out of me.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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My gaze drags the length of her body as the black barrier disappears. She’s wearing red lace lingerie. And red is now my favorite color. Her hair, her lingerie, her taste, her smell… It’s all red.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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You’re just as stunning, it’s unfair how men just look fantastic while women have to work at it.”
“You always embody beauty.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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You said there was only one reason to date her. What’s that?”
My body stiffens. “I love her. I always have.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I love it when ‘I don’t give a fuck about anything’ Dori comes out to play.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Don’t act like I don’t know who you are. Your mission in life is to make every woman you meet want you.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Playing this little game with her is fun. It’s like forbidden flirting, which makes me want her even more.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Nothing like baptism by fire, but shit’s about to hit the fan.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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If hot caramel had a sound, his voice would be it. It’s smooth and screams take a bite out of me.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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This should probably be a one-time-only thing.”
“Not a chance in hell, beauty. This is just the beginning. It’s a good thing you got a nap today because I plan on keeping you up into all hours of the night.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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You’re more beautiful right now than I’ve ever seen you before.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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You better go slow or you’re going to rip me in half.”
“I already planned on going slow. I want to feel every inch of you as you become mine.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I want to watch you as I claim you. Take all the time you need. Just let me watch.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I’m going to come.” He moans. “Make me come.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Goddamn. She’s a fucking dream.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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This woman’s found a way into my heart and I’m shocked at what little time it took.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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She’s Eve holding out the poisonous apple. I can’t resist her. I don’t want to resist her, but she’s always enticed me, only to leave me hanging when another guy comes along.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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We’re both stealing air when we can because we’re going at it like we’re starving with need.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Jami, I’ve wanted this for so long. I didn’t know how you would react, but…”
“But what?”
“But I didn’t expect you to want me like I want you.” She blinks and waits for me to respond. I step back.
“You didn’t expect me to want you. Are you kidding me? I’ve wanted this for as long as I can remember.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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You kiss better than I imagined you would.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Why have I stopped myself from doing this before? It’s so much more than I could’ve hoped for.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I’m done with all the clothes between us. If she’ll let me, I’m ready to tear them off.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I want her more than I’ve wanted anything in my life.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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There’s not one inch of her body that I don’t want to taste, but first her dress has to go.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I just got wrapped up in your eyes. You’re an exotic beauty and I can’t believe you’re standing before me.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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And I can’t forget how much he turns me on. His eyes alone have me spellbound.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I can’t tell you when I last had sex. It’s at the point where I think I’m a reborn virgin. I’m so sexually frustrated and seeing Jami made it worse. He’s the hottest man alive.” I fan myself. “I can’t take it much longer.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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And believe me, I have no intention of Dorothy Fisher becoming a hobby.”
No. If anything, I want to dive in full time with Ms. Fisher.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Woman, you are going to take me to an early grave.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Every part of you is perfect. This lingerie set… Fuck.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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I think you’re going to kill me right now.
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Brooke Reign (Playing To Lose (Lucky Rivals #1))
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Enchanted objects took up most of the space—everything from tiaras that would make a person beautiful to sleeping potions strong enough to rival the one that had knocked out Briar Rose. Nix
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Linsey Hall (Dragon's Gift: The Huntress Complete Series (Dragon's Gift: The Huntress #1-5))
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During the same time, it was faced with the first series of wars with Russia, as the new Tsar, Peter the Great implemented a new policy of “access to the sea.” This prevented the Ottoman’s Crimean allies, who usually sent cavalry reinforcements to fight alongside regular Ottoman troops, from supporting Ottoman forces in central Europe. Despite several Russian defeats, the conflict ended with the capture of Azov, the Ottoman’s stronghold in Crimea in 1696, and was a sign of the growing threat Russia posed to the Ottomans. Russia increasingly saw the Ottoman Empire as its objective rival in its quest to assert control over the Black Sea.
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Charles River Editors (The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire: The History and Legacy of the Ottoman Turks’ Decline and the Creation of the Modern Middle East)
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The brig Henrietta having made Sandy Hook a little before the dinner hour – and having passed the Narrows about three o’clock – and then crawling to and fro, in a series of tacks infinitesimal enough to rival the calculus, across the grey sheet of the harbour of New-York – until it seemed to Mr Smith, dancing from foot to foot upon deck, that the small mound of the city waiting there would hover ahead in the November gloom in perpetuity, never growing closer, to the smirk of Greek Zeno – and the day being advanced to dusk by the time Henrietta at last lay anchored off Tietjes Slip, with the veritable gables of the city’s veritable houses divided from him only by one hundred foot of water – and the dusk moreover being as cold and damp and dim as November can afford, as if all the world were a quarto of grey paper dampened by drizzle until in danger of crumbling imminently to pap: – all this being true, the master of the brig pressed upon him the virtue of sleeping this one further night aboard, and pursuing his shore business in the morning. (He meaning by the offer to signal his esteem, having found Mr Smith a pleasant companion during the slow weeks of the crossing.) But Smith would not have it. Smith,
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Francis Spufford (Golden Hill)
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I wanted to do this properly, but I look at you and I forget...
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Abby Green (Rival's Challenge (The Chatsfield, #6))
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One more crack like that, Chatsfield, and you'll have to entertain yourself in your little hideaway.'
Antonio took her hand again and found himself feeling serious as he said, 'Not a chance. You're not escaping now.
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Abby Green (Rival's Challenge (The Chatsfield, #6))
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Over the course of seventy years, Isobel had learned how indiscriminately unkind Life could be. She also knew that cataloguing and reviewing examples of such cruelty was, in itself, a masochistic exercise. One that she'd habitually and rigorously trained herself to refrain from engaging in. Better to focus on those events that demonstrated the grace and beauty with which Life could perform, without rival, when bestowing on her captive audience a distinctively intermittent yet consistently welcomed generosity of spirit.
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Ella J. Fraser (A Tricky Lie (Sutherland Mystery Series, #1))
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My concern at times is nothing more than establishing a series of practical considerations that will enable me to work. For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.
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Mason Currey (Daily Rituals: How Artists Work)
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It’s a beautiful sunlit Monday in August, the kind of day that would make your heart sing, your spirit rise. It’s lunchtime, and I’m standing in an absent-minded fog by the German sausage stall in Borough Market, under London Bridge. I can hear the trains rumbling overhead, and it reminds me of that scene from The Godfather, the one where Michael Corleone is about to assassinate his father’s rival mafia boss. Trains always seem to rumble overhead in movies when something ominous is about to happen, and it’s kind of spooky, not to mention fitting, because things couldn’t get much more ominous for me, right now.
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Ruth Mancini (Swimming Home (The Swimming Upstream Series #2))
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The moderate person contains opposing capacities..... A moderate person can start out with these divisions and rival tendencies, but to live a coherent life, the moderate must find a series of balances and proportions. The moderate is forever seeking a series of temporary arrangements, embedded in the specific situation of the moment, that will help him or her balance the desire for security with the desire for risk, the call of liberty with the need for restraint. The moderate knows there is no ultimate resolution to these tensions. Great matters cannot be settled by taking into account just one principle or one viewpoint. Governing is more like sailing in a storm: shift your weight one way when the boat tilts to starboard, shift your weight the other way when it tilts to port— adjust and adjust and adjust to circumstances to keep the semblance and equanimity of an even keel. ...The moderate knows she cannot have it all. There are tensions between rival goods, and you just have to accept that you will never get to live a pure and perfect life, devoted to one truth or one value.
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David Brooks
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Early on, advocates of big bang cosmology realized that the universe is evolutionary. In the words of one famous cosmologist, George Gamov, “We conclude that the relative abundances of atomic species represent the most ancient archaeological document pertaining to the history of the universe.” In other words, the periodic table is evidence of the evolution of matter, and atoms can testify to the history of the cosmos. But early versions of big bang cosmology held that all the elements of the universe were fused in one fell swoop. As Gamov puts it, “These abundances …” meaning the ratio of the elements (heaps of hydrogen, hardly any gold—that kind of thing), “… must have been established during the earliest stages of expansion, when the temperature of the primordial matter was still sufficiently high to permit nuclear transformations to run through the entire range of chemical elements.” It was a neat idea, but very wrong. Only hydrogen, helium, and a dash of lithium could have formed in the big bang. All of the elements heavier than lithium were made much later, by being fused in evolving and exploding stars. How do we know this? Because at the same time some scholars were working on the big bang theory, others were trying to ditch the big bang altogether. Its association with thermonuclear devices made it seem hasty, and its implied mysterious origins tainted it with creationism. And so, a rival camp of cosmologists developed an alternate theory: the Steady State. The Steady State held that the universe had always existed. And always will. Matter is created out of the vacuum of space itself. Steady State theorists, working against the big bang and its flaws, were obliged to wonder where in the cosmos the chemical elements might have been cooked up, if not in the first few minutes of the universe. Their answer: in the furnaces of the very stars themselves. They found a series of nuclear chain reactions at work in the stars. First, they discovered how fusion had made elements heavier than carbon. Then, they detailed eight fusion reactions through which stars convert light elements into heavy ones, to be recycled into space through stellar winds and supernovae. And so, it’s the inside of stars where the alchemist’s dream comes true. Every gram of gold began billions of years ago, forged out of the inside of an exploding star in a supernova. The gold particles lost into space from the explosion mixed with rocks and dust to form part of the early Earth. They’ve been lying in wait ever since.
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Mark Brake (The Science of Harry Potter: The Spellbinding Science Behind the Magic, Gadgets, Potions, and More!)
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Stalin first teamed up with Kamenev and Zinoviev, members of the triumvirate that had run the party during Lenin’s illness, to be rid of their common rival, Trotsky. By slander, intimidation of his supporters, and similar underhanded methods they stripped Trotsky of his posts, expelled him from the party, and then exiled him, first to Central Asia and finally, in 1929, abroad, where, in 1940, Stalin had him murdered. Stalin next turned on Kamenev and Zinoviev, whom he had removed from the Politburo. His victims’ ability to defend themselves against fabricated accusations was fatally weakened by their acceptance of the principle that “the party is always right.
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Richard Pipes (Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 7))
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Well, you found me," I said. "I guess you're going to call and report me to Mr. Louis now..."
"Eventually," she said, "but first I wanted to tell you that I know how you feel... if you'll stop being a total jerk for two seconds. Can you?"
"I don't know," I told her. "My longest period of not being a jerk is only one second, two might be stretching it, but I'll try my best.
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Robert G. Culp (Knight School: A Mystic Brats Novel (The Mystic Brat Journals #1))
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« Sois plus gentille avec moi, la prochaine fois ! » s’exclama-t-il en s’approchant d’elle. Il l’envoûtait totalement, « Je suis certain qu’on pourrait vraiment bien s’amuser tous les deux, mais seulement si tu as apprends à être gentille… » murmura-t-il dans le creux de son oreille avant de s’éloigner et de la laisser seule contre le tronc d’arbre.
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Myosotis (Vengeance and Legends (Sex, Secrets & Spells #4))
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Zero is the ultimate nullibist and holenmerist entity. Zero is whole in every number, and whole in every part of mathematics. The universe that we all experience exists purely because zero is nullibist and holenmerist … because zero contains all numbers … because zero is exactly where “something” = “nothing”. Reality exists solely because something = nothing. Zero is everything. Zero contains everything. Zero is everywhere. Zero is whole everywhere, and whole in everything. Nothing rivals the incredible power and beauty of zero. It’s the ultimate expression of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) and Occam’s razor. What could be simpler than nothing? The universe of zero is the simplest possible universe and the best possible universe.
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Thomas Stark (Holenmerism and Nullibism: The Two Faces of the Holographic Universe (The Truth Series Book 9))
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Humanity’s intellectual tragedy is that is has seen rationalism and empiricism as two rival, contradictory schools when, in truth, they are complementary and completely compatible. They are two sides of one coin. One side of that coin is primary, objective and quantitative. The other is secondary, subjective and qualitative. We experience this latter aspect – the sensible aspect – but we can understand existence only through the other side of the coin – the intelligible aspect. Only the latter reveals ultimate reality to us, so rationalism is more important than empiricism. Empiricism is about how we live in the world; rationalism tells us what the world actually is.
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Mike Hockney (Mind and Life, Form and Content (The God Series Book 19))
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Up to this point in Jesus’s ministry, he could still have managed to live a long, happy, peaceful life, but his actions on Sunday set in motion a series of events that could result only in either his overthrow of the Romans and the current religious establishment—or his brutal death. He has crossed the point of no return; there would be no turning back. Caesar could allow no rival kings.
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Andreas J. Köstenberger (The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived)
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Some Pharisees instruct Jesus to rebuke the crowds for their dangerous messianic exuberance, but he refuses to correct or curtail the excitement of the crowd over his entrance into the city (Matt. 21:15–17; Luke 19:39–40). It would be hard to overestimate the political and religious volatility incited by Jesus’s actions—the Pharisees were taken by surprise and had no idea how to respond (John 12:19). Up to this point in Jesus’s ministry, he could still have managed to live a long, happy, peaceful life, but his actions on Sunday set in motion a series of events that could result only in either his overthrow of the Romans and the current religious establishment—or his brutal death. He has crossed the point of no return; there would be no turning back. Caesar could allow no rival kings. As Jesus approaches the city, he weeps over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41–44).
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Andreas J. Köstenberger (The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived)
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But her boyfriend is a friend of mine, or at least he’s a colleague who isn’t a business rival, which is what passes for friendship among the top levs.
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Julia Huni (Triana Moore, Space Janitor: The Complete Series)
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This book should never have happened. If it wasn’t for the most bizarre and twisted sequence of events involving a diverse array of people it wouldn’t have. Let us explain. If someone we, the authors, had wanted to impress - a publisher, say, or a book reviewer - had asked us how it had emerged, we could have come up with all kinds of things to establish our credentials for writing it. But they would have been only a small part of the story of how it came about, and not the interesting bit either. The truth is much more human and fascinating - and it also gets to the heart of the book and shows how networks really work. Greg has always been fascinated by ‘network theory’ - the findings of sociologists, mathematicians and physicists, which seemed to translate to the real world of links between people. Early in his professional life at Auto Trader magazine in Canada he got to see an extraordinary network of buyers and sellers in operation. Later, when he became a venture capitalist - someone who invests in new or young companies, hoping that some of them will become very valuable - he applied what he’d learned. He invested in businesses that could benefit from the way networks behave, and this approach yielded some notable successes. Richard came from a different slant. For twenty years, he was a ‘strategy consultant’, using economic analysis to help firms become more profitable than their rivals. He ended up co-founding LEK, the fastest-growing ‘strategy boutique’ of the 1980s, with offices in the US, Europe and Asia. He also wrote books on business strategy, and in particular championed the ‘star business’ idea, which stated that the most valuable venture was nearly always a ‘star’, defined as the biggest firm in a high-growth market. In the 1990s and 2000s, Richard successfully invested the money he had made as a management consultant in a series of star ventures. He also read everything available about networks, feeling intuitively that they were another reason for business success, and might also help explain why some people’s careers took off while equally intelligent and qualified people often languished. So, there were good reasons why Greg and Richard might want to write a book together about networks. But the problem with all such ‘formal’ explanations is that they ignore the human events and coincidences that took place before that book could ever see the light of day. The most
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Richard Koch (Superconnect: How the Best Connections in Business and Life Are the Ones You Least Expect)
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There was just one problem. “He’s not a rival.” Ozzy didn’t bother to hide his jealousy. “I’ll say. He’s no warrior.” Zelda sighed. “You don’t need to assert dominance every time you see him.” He just looked at her. Zelda threw her hands up and walked away. Men!
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Autumn Dawn (These Violent Delights (Goblin Series #3))
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Eventually, two rival gangs divided up the Island, using Broadway as a line of demarcation. The Beach Gang, so called because it landed most of its goods on West Beach, occupied the south half of the Island. It was led by an oldtime mobster named Ollie J. Quinn, and his partner, Dutch Voight. A rotund, unfailingly pleasant man, Quinn was an Island icon. On Sundays he faithfully attended services at the First Baptist Church, always placing a hundred-dollar bill in the collection plate. In secular circles, however, Quinn was the acknowledged kingpin of Galveston vice. He ran a joint at 21st and Postoffice called the Deluxe Club, and leased slot machines and other gambling equipment through his Modern Vending Company. Quinn and Voight ran a dependable, relaxed, downhome operation, known for its tolerance to competition and its commitment to peace among outlaws.
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Gary Cartwright (Galveston: A History of the Island (Chisholm Trail Series Book 18))
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The other major smuggling outfit, the Downtown Gang, was distinguished by its reputation for having considerably more guts than brains. The Downtown Gang was headed by a dandy named Johnny Jack Nounes, a legendary high roller who wore a diamond stickpin and carried a roll of hundred-dollar bills as thick as a cucumber. Johnny Jack was famous for his generosity. He gave toys to kids at Christmas, and once spent $40,000 on a party at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York, where silent film stars Nancy Carroll and Clara Bow are said to have bathed in expensive champagne. He was equally famous for his careless approach to business. He sometimes hijacked truckloads of booze belonging to rival smugglers, and once stiffed a group of Cubans by paying for their boatload of rum with soap coupons.
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Gary Cartwright (Galveston: A History of the Island (Chisholm Trail Series Book 18))
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regression as dummy variables Explain the importance of the error term plot Identify assumptions of regression, and know how to test and correct assumption violations Multiple regression is one of the most widely used multivariate statistical techniques for analyzing three or more variables. This chapter uses multiple regression to examine such relationships, and thereby extends the discussion in Chapter 14. The popularity of multiple regression is due largely to the ease with which it takes control variables (or rival hypotheses) into account. In Chapter 10, we discussed briefly how contingency tables can be used for this purpose, but doing so is often a cumbersome and sometimes inconclusive effort. By contrast, multiple regression easily incorporates multiple independent variables. Another reason for its popularity is that it also takes into account nominal independent variables. However, multiple regression is no substitute for bivariate analysis. Indeed, managers or analysts with an interest in a specific bivariate relationship will conduct a bivariate analysis first, before examining whether the relationship is robust in the presence of numerous control variables. And before conducting bivariate analysis, analysts need to conduct univariate analysis to better understand their variables. Thus, multiple regression is usually one of the last steps of analysis. Indeed, multiple regression is often used to test the robustness of bivariate relationships when control variables are taken into account. The flexibility with which multiple regression takes control variables into account comes at a price, though. Regression, like the t-test, is based on numerous assumptions. Regression results cannot be assumed to be robust in the face of assumption violations. Testing of assumptions is always part of multiple regression analysis. Multiple regression is carried out in the following sequence: (1) model specification (that is, identification of dependent and independent variables), (2) testing of regression assumptions, (3) correction of assumption violations, if any, and (4) reporting of the results of the final regression model. This chapter examines these four steps and discusses essential concepts related to simple and multiple regression. Chapters 16 and 17 extend this discussion by examining the use of logistic regression and time series analysis. MODEL SPECIFICATION Multiple regression is an extension of simple regression, but an important difference exists between the two methods: multiple regression aims for full model specification. This means that analysts seek to account for all of the variables that affect the dependent variable; by contrast, simple regression examines the effect of only one independent variable. Philosophically, the phrase identifying the key difference—“all of the variables that affect the dependent variable”—is divided into two parts. The first part involves identifying the variables that are of most (theoretical and practical) relevance in explaining the dependent
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Evan M. Berman (Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts)
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The golden age for magazines came in the quarter-century from 1825 to 1850, when the business as we know it today really began. In 1825 there were fewer than a hundred magazines in America; by 1850 there were more than six hundred, the survivors of between four and five thousand periodicals issued in that quarter-century. Three magazines founded during this period are still surviving: Scientific American, begun in 1845, and Harper's Magazine, founded in 1850 as Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Its rival was and remains the Atlantic Monthly, established in 1857.
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Robert A. Carter (Opportunities in Publishing Careers, Revised Edition (Opportunities In…Series))
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In Girl World someone always had to be planning something or spreading rumors about her rival. If she didn't like someone, why not just stay away from her?
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Tiffany Nicole Smith (Bex Carter 1: Aunt Jeanie's Revenge (The Bex Carter Series))
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There is this other thought that he has overcome the world by the gift of the Holy Spirit. That gift was practically the world’s conquest. Jesus has set up a rival kingdom now: a kingdom of love and righteousness; already the world feels its power by the Spirit. I do not believe that there is a dark place in the centre of Africa which is not to some extent improved by the influence of Christianity; even the wilderness rejoices and is glad for him. No barbarous power dares to do what it once did, or if it does there is such a clamour raised against its cruelty that very soon it has to say peccavi, [I have sinned] and confess its faults.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Christ's Glorious Achievements: Set Forth In Seven Sermons (Spurgeon’s Shilling Series))
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Half a century ago, eminent psychologist Elliot Aronson conducted a series of experiments suggesting that we’re often more sensitive to gains and losses in esteem than the level of esteem itself. When someone always supports us, we take it for granted—and can discount it. But we regard someone who began as a rival and then became an enthusiastic supporter as an authentic advocate.
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Adam M. Grant (Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World)
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In many countries, including England and the United States, poor diet now rivals smoking as the greatest public health risk. Malnutrition does not necessarily mean lack of food, but rather lack of proper nutrients. You can eat five meals a day and qualify as malnourished. (Case in point: Morgan Spurlock’s near-lethal experiment in Supersize Me.) When it comes to certain nutrients, in fact, an estimated 80 to 90 percent of obese individuals are malnourished. (The same percentage holds for nonobese individuals.)
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Hope Jahren (The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2017 (The Best American Series))
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The league match ended in a tense 1-1 draw, which kept Barcelona eight points clear at the top. Lionel scored a penalty and then with ten minutes to go, Cristiano scored a penalty. Messi 1 Ronaldo 1. ‘Anything you do, Ronaldo does too!’ Andrés said with a big smile on his face. Lionel’s teammates loved to tease him about his Ballon d’Or rival. They needed their star to be at his very best. In the Copa del Rey final, Lionel was desperate to be the matchwinner. He tried dropping deep, he tried moving out to the wing but nothing worked. Wherever he went, he was surrounded by defenders. Then in extra time, Cristiano scored to give Real the victory. Messi 1 Ronaldo 2. Lionel was furious. He always hated losing but losing against Ronaldo and Real Madrid was the worst feeling ever. ‘What are we going to do?’ he asked his teammates. ‘We have to win the Champions League semi-final now!
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Matt Oldfield (Ultimate Football Heroes: Messi (Top Ballers 1): Collect them all!)
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AlphaGo scored its first high-profile victory in March 2016 during a five-game series against the legendary Korean player Lee Sedol, winning four to one. While barely noticed by most Americans, the five games drew more than 280 million Chinese viewers. Overnight, China plunged into an artificial intelligence fever. The buzz didn’t quite rival America’s reaction to Sputnik, but it lit a fire under the Chinese technology community that has been burning ever since.
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Kai-Fu Lee (AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order)
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La primera serie de grandes guerras se centró en Italia, cuyas ricas y vulnerables ciudades-Estado habían tentado ya en 1494 a los franceses y que, por lo mismo, habían producido varias coaliciones de poderes rivales (España, los Habsburgo austriacos, incluso Inglaterra) para obligar a los franceses a retirarse[
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Paul Kennedy (Auge y caída de las grandes potencias (Spanish Edition))
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Only one disagreeable incident marred that winter. Charlie Sloane, sitting bolt upright on Miss Ada's most dearly beloved cushion, asked Anne one night if she would promise "to become Mrs. Charlie Sloane some day." Coming after Billy Andrews' proxy effort, this was not quite the shock to Anne's romantic sensibilities that it would otherwise have been; but it was certainly another heart-rending disillusion. She was angry, too, for she felt that she had never given Charlie the slightest encouragement to suppose such a thing possible. But what could you expect of a Sloane, as Mrs. Rachel Lynde would ask scornfully? Charlie's whole attitude, tone, air, words, fairly reeked with Sloanishness. "He was conferring a great honor—no doubt whatever about that. And when Anne, utterly insensible to the honor, refused him, as delicately and considerately as she could—for even a Sloane had feelings which ought not to be unduly lacerated—Sloanishness still further betrayed itself. Charlie certainly did not take his dismissal as Anne's imaginary rejected suitors did. Instead, he became angry, and showed it; he said two or three quite nasty things; Anne's temper flashed up mutinously and she retorted with a cutting little speech whose keenness pierced even Charlie's protective Sloanishness and reached the quick; he caught up his hat and flung himself out of the house with a very red face; Anne rushed upstairs, falling twice over Miss Ada's cushions on the way, and threw herself on her bed, in tears of humiliation and rage. Had she actually stooped to quarrel with a Sloane? Was it possible anything Charlie Sloane could say had power to make her angry? Oh, this was degradation, indeed—worse even than being the rival of Nettie Blewett!
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne Shirley Complete 8-Book Series (Anne of Green Gables, #1-8))
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The regular practice of magic can actually alter our body's chemistry. Does this sound far-fetched? It's not. Consider the effect that just thinking about food can have on your body. Your mouth starts to salivate. The brain sends out chemicals that directly or indirectly stimulate appetite and start acid flowing to the stomach. Blood also flows toward the stomach. Or consider the effect that thinking about sex has on the body! The glands begin to produce chemicals that prepare the body for sex. The brain, stimulated by sexual thoughts, also produces chemicals known as endorphins. Endorphins are so powerful that they rival heroin as a pain blocker. Practicing magic also produces changes in our body chemistry.
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Donald Michael Kraig (Llewellyn's Truth About Calling Spirits (Truth About Series))
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There are certain men, Freud tells us in “On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love,” who are incapable of falling in love with a woman unless she is already involved with another man. A woman is uninteresting to such men in the absence of this formal, structural, symbolic condition – a condition that obviously harks back to the Oedipal triangle where, right from the outset, boys had a rival for their mothers’ affections in the form of their fathers (and/or siblings). Freud indicates that such men need to feel jealous of and have “gratifying impulses of rivalry and hostility” toward the other man, the man who was already involved with the woman before he came on the scene.
Men who love in this way often end up having a whole series of triangular attachments, proving that it is not the particular women they fall for who are important but rather the structural situation itself: a situation including a woman who is already “taken” and the man who “possesses” her. Should the woman in question leave her boyfriend, fiancé, or husband, the triangle collapses and the woman is no longer of any interest to our lover, who can no longer fancy himself an interloper or invader of the other man’s territory. It is only the continued impossibility of the situation – the enduring hopelessness of ever possessing the other man’s woman – that keeps him interested; as soon as the obstacle to possession disappears, so too does his love for her.
This is an obsessive configuration insofar as the obsessive’s desire is always for something impossible: to attain an unattainable status (e.g., perfection, omniscience, or immortality), to complete an uncompletable project, or to possess what he cannot possess. In saying that the obsessive is characterized by an impossible desire, Lacan goes so far as to add that his desire is for impossibility itself. A relationship with a woman is not in and of itself appealing or gratifying enough to our obsessive: it must be mediated by a living, breathing, third party who renders his quest unrealizable, allowing him to go on dreaming “the impossible dream” (as the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha put it).
This third party may be no older than our lover, even if older men are the most enjoyable targets of his rage and shenanigans. The obsessive is most intrigued when the Other man is clearly designated, in socially recognizable linguistic terms of the historical era and culture, as having an official status as a boyfriend, lover, partner, fiancé, husband, or whatever the other terms of the time and place may be (for example, mignon, favori, “favorite,” or “servant”). Yet even when the third party simply is someone who occasionally hangs around the woman (actually or virtually), having some sort of nebulous, vague, undefined relationship with her, our obsessive can often imagine that he is far more substantial than he appears to be or than she lets on – that is, that he is a genuine father-like rival.
Although it may appear outwardly that our lover is captivated by another man’s woman, it is the Other man himself who is of libidinal centrality to him – for it is the obsessive’s competition with this Other man that gets his juices flowing, so to speak, that gets him angry or stirred up, feeling, by turns, inferior or superior to him. Consciously he believes that it is the Other man’s woman who fascinates him; unconsciously it is the battle with the Other man that fascinates him.
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Bruce Fink (Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference)
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Come ottenere diamanti gratis in Free Fire - diamanti gratis in Free Fire 2025 [M1YFDu]
Pubblicato: 18 ottobre 2025
39 secondi fa, Sicuramente molti di voi si stanno chiedendo come ottenere diamanti gratis su Free Fire, ottenendo così nuovi equipaggiamenti e armi nel gioco. In questa guida ti mostreremo le migliori opzioni per ottenerlo senza mettere in pericolo il tuo account e in modo totalmente legale.
Non è un segreto Free Fire è stato postulato come il diretto rivale per quanto riguarda PUBG e Fortnite per il trono del genere affollato di Battle Royale. Detto questo, non è così facile avanzare in questo gioco senza un elemento chiave nello scambio di vantaggi: il diamanti di Free Fire. Qualcosa che potrebbe permetterci di essere il numero 1 più frequentemente.
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queste ricompense Sono i più difficili da mettere in gioco., così tanti giocatori stanno cercando di impossessarsene senza dover pagare soldi veri per ottenerli.
Oggi, da Frontal Gamer, ti istruiremo come ottenere un premio così prezioso da semplici passaggi che puoi eseguire a tuo piacimento.
cosa sono i diamanti Free Fire?
vincitore della battaglia Free Fire
Se fai parte di quei milioni di giocatori che affrontano la sfida di sopravvivere su un campo di battaglia con la tua arma e abilità migliori, sicuramente saprai cosa sono i diamanti e su cosa si basano Free Fire.
Sebbene questa spiegazione possa essere ridondante per molti, i nuovi giocatori apprezzeranno sicuramente un breve riassunto di ciò che sono. Quindi risolviamo quei piccoli dubbi.
In attesa di andare in battaglia Free Fire per i premi
I diamanti sono una valuta di scambio Free Fire che ci consente di acquistare equipaggiamento, armi di alto livello e emote, tra gli altri. La filosofia non ha mistero: più equipaggiamento avanzato hai, più facile è vincere.
Anche, i diamanti possono anche darti abilità extra che ti farà risaltare sopra il resto. Ecco perché sono di vitale importanza per vincere le partite. Queste pietre preziose possono essere acquistate, anche se oggi siamo qui per dirlo come ottenere diamanti gratis.
Come ottenere diamanti legalmente Free Fire
Non ti inganneremo, ed è così ottenere diamanti gratis su Free Fire non sempre un compito facile easy, quindi devi essere consapevole che, se vuoi un premio così succulento, dovrai fare uno sforzo, perché in questa vita non ci danno mai nulla.
Se vogliamo una soluzione immediata, possiamo sempre pagare per quei preziosi diamanti.
Prezzi del pacchetto di diamanti
100 diamantes: 1,09 €
310 diamantes: 3,49 €
520 diamantes: 5,49 €
1060 diamantes: 10,99 €
2180 diamantes: 21,99 €
5600 diamantes: 54,99 €
Negozio Free Fire per ottenere diamanti
Inoltre, possiamo sempre scegliere un abbonamento settimanale e ricevere 100 diamantes come conseguenza. Naturalmente, se controlliamo in negozio, ci costano meno se scegliamo per acquistarli separatamente, arrivando alla cifra di 1,09€. Fai i tuoi calcoli.
Sottoscrizione Free Fire per ottenere diamanti
Un altro piccolo dettaglio è il fatto che, se otteniamo i diamanti, possiamo pareggiare acquista i livelli per cercare di mettersi al passo con i migliori giocatori del mondo, arrivando anche a optare per un'invidiabile serie di vittorie anche per coloro che hanno trascorso ore innamorati dei loro schermi mobili.
Prezzi del passaggio di livello
passaggio di livello Free Fire per vincere diamanti gratis
Il Level Pass ti consentirà di guadagnare diamanti gratuiti man mano che acquisisci esperienza.
Il Tier Pass è un'offerta che può essere acquistata solo una volta per giocatore. Grazie ad esso otterrai diama
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Come ottenere diamanti gratis in Free Fire - diamanti gratis in Free Fire 2025 [kppxkH]
Publicado: 10 de octubre de 2025
49 segundos, Sicuramente molti di voi si stanno chiedendo come ottenere diamanti gratis su Free Fire, ottenendo così nuovi equipaggiamenti e armi nel gioco. In questa guida ti mostreremo le migliori opzioni per ottenerlo senza mettere in pericolo il tuo account e in modo totalmente legale.
Non è un segreto Free Fire è stato postulato come il diretto rivale per quanto riguarda PUBG e Fortnite per il trono del genere affollato di Battle Royale. Detto questo, non è così facile avanzare in questo gioco senza un elemento chiave nello scambio di vantaggi: il diamanti di Free Fire. Qualcosa che potrebbe permetterci di essere il numero 1 più frequentemente.
CLICCA QUI
CLICCA QUI
CLICCA QUI
queste ricompense Sono i più difficili da mettere in gioco., così tanti giocatori stanno cercando di impossessarsene senza dover pagare soldi veri per ottenerli.
Oggi, da Frontal Gamer, ti istruiremo come ottenere un premio così prezioso da semplici passaggi che puoi eseguire a tuo piacimento.
cosa sono i diamanti Free Fire?
vincitore della battaglia Free Fire
Se fai parte di quei milioni di giocatori che affrontano la sfida di sopravvivere su un campo di battaglia con la tua arma e abilità migliori, sicuramente saprai cosa sono i diamanti e su cosa si basano Free Fire.
Sebbene questa spiegazione possa essere ridondante per molti, i nuovi giocatori apprezzeranno sicuramente un breve riassunto di ciò che sono. Quindi risolviamo quei piccoli dubbi.
In attesa di andare in battaglia Free Fire per i premi
I diamanti sono una valuta di scambio Free Fire che ci consente di acquistare equipaggiamento, armi di alto livello e emote, tra gli altri. La filosofia non ha mistero: più equipaggiamento avanzato hai, più facile è vincere.
Anche, i diamanti possono anche darti abilità extra che ti farà risaltare sopra il resto. Ecco perché sono di vitale importanza per vincere le partite. Queste pietre preziose possono essere acquistate, anche se oggi siamo qui per dirlo come ottenere diamanti gratis.
Come ottenere diamanti legalmente Free Fire
Non ti inganneremo, ed è così ottenere diamanti gratis su Free Fire non sempre un compito facile easy, quindi devi essere consapevole che, se vuoi un premio così succulento, dovrai fare uno sforzo, perché in questa vita non ci danno mai nulla.
Se vogliamo una soluzione immediata, possiamo sempre pagare per quei preziosi diamanti.
Prezzi del pacchetto di diamanti
100 diamantes: 1,09 €
310 diamantes: 3,49 €
520 diamantes: 5,49 €
1060 diamantes: 10,99 €
2180 diamantes: 21,99 €
5600 diamantes: 54,99 €
Negozio Free Fire per ottenere diamanti
Inoltre, possiamo sempre scegliere un abbonamento settimanale e ricevere 100 diamantes come conseguenza. Naturalmente, se controlliamo in negozio, ci costano meno se scegliamo per acquistarli separatamente, arrivando alla cifra di 1,09€. Fai i tuoi calcoli.
Sottoscrizione Free Fire per ottenere diamanti
Un altro piccolo dettaglio è il fatto che, se otteniamo i diamanti, possiamo pareggiare acquista i livelli per cercare di mettersi al passo con i migliori giocatori del mondo, arrivando anche a optare per un'invidiabile serie di vittorie anche per coloro che hanno trascorso ore innamorati dei loro schermi mobili.
Prezzi del passaggio di livello
passaggio di livello Free Fire per vincere diamanti gratis
Il Level Pass ti consentirà di guadagnare diamanti gratuiti man mano che acquisisci esperienza.
Il Tier Pass è un'offerta che può essere acquistata solo una volta per giocatore. Grazie ad esso otterrai di
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klrm
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The political process is dominated by rival elites committed to irreconcilable beliefs [...] the politics of ideology distorted our view of the world and confronted us with a series of false choices between feminism and the family, social reform and traditional values, racial justice and individual accountability. Ideological rigidity has the effect of obscuring the views Americans have in common, of replacing substantive issues with purely symbolic issues, and of creating a false impression of polarization.
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Christopher Lasch (The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy)