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  • #1
    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “Real leadership is treating your least favorite employee the same as your favorite”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: bias, business, chemistry, motivations, organisations, relationship, retention, science, sentiment, unwritten-rules
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “Science Fiction, is the last great escape.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew
    tags: ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, cyberpunk, futuristic, robotics, techno, technology
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    Sheridan Brown
    “The cold buried deep inside the bones of her hands, her feet, her head, her back…everywhere. Viola felt old, chilled, and exflunctified. She brushed away her snow-white hair and with gnarled fingers tried tucking it under the black, lacy, silk nightcap that her great niece Annie had sewn for her. Each day, her clothes consisted of a long, white, embroidered nightgown, and a soft, warm, lavender sontag with the hair brooch secured upon her left shoulder. The few pleasures she had since she could no longer see were those of having mail or newspaper stories read to her by relatives who took turns caring for her. She could not tolerate people or activity. Food and drink were tasteless. Although the family made many attempts at a tray of concoctions for her each day, she had just quit eating. She remained closed in her bedroom in this dizzy age, propped in bed, eyes shut with her memories. “Who knew I would live this long?”
    ― Sheridan Brown, The Viola Factor
    tags: african-american, civil-war, education, mental-health, outspoken, principles, roots, self-discovery, servant, unjust
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    Raz Mihal
    “Without divine love, there would be no evolution, no knowledge; it is the source of all that exists.”
    ― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her
    tags: divinesource, evolutionthroughlove, loveisknowledge
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    Larada Horner-Miller
    “As a child, we sang those precious songs at church and school. At home, we sang along with the singers on the Lawrence Welk Christmas show, and there used to be so many Christmas specials—Andy Williams and Perry Como. I loved the bouncing ball on the Mitch Miller sing-along show. And of course, we watched “The Ed Sullivan Show” weekly and loved his Christmas special. I never grew tired of them.”
    ― Larada Horner-Miller, Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
    tags: celebration, childhood-memories, delightful, fun, journey, memoir, miracle, pine-tree, treasure-trove, warmth
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these acquisitions; but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profit of the chosen few. And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they, and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded their's. When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus
    tags: alienation, discrimination, humanity
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    Dalton Trumbo
    “What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It’s just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it’s a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let’s fight for liberty and he can’t show you liberty. He can’t prove the thing he’s talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it?”
    ― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Peace to thee, kind and selfish, vain and generous old heathen!—We shall see thee no more. Let us hope that Lady Jane supported her kindly, and led her with gentle hand out of the busy struggle of Vanity Fair.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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  • #9
    David McCullough
    “Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn,”
    ― David McCullough, Truman
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  • #10
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Nine roses around the lion…God in heaven that’s the Tumbaar coat-of-arms.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: action, ancestors, future, past, romance, romantic, science-fiction, space-marine, time-travel, time-travel-science
    142 likes

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    Todor Bombov
    “There is no word that admits of more various significations, and has made more varied impressions on the human mind, than that of liberty.” (Montesquieu) In order to exist, liberty and justice in a society, there should be equality in this society before them and together with them. Only then can we speak of humanism. Only socially equal personalities are free. And only free and equal in rights personalities could “love each other like brothers.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: communism, east-europe, effective, historical, oppressive-regime, regime, society, totalitarian-government, totalitarian-system, ussr
    222 likes

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  • #12
    Yarro Rai
    “Dear,
    Heart

    The reason, I tell you not to go deep,
    is because you have to crawl back out too.”
    ― Yarro Rai, Abyss :
    tags: betrayal, heartache, heartbreak, life-philosophy, love, love-quotes, truth-of-life
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  • #13
    “Routine had become rhythm. Rhythm had become identity.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel
    tags: action, drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction-novel, intense, psychological, scary, supernatural-thriller, suspense
    125 likes

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  • #14
    Jeffrey Archer
    “The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.”
    ― Jeffrey Archer, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
    tags: archer, jeffrey, jeffrey-archer
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    A.A. Milne
    “Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.”
    ― A. A. Milne
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    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights
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    H.G. Wells
    “This mark men and women set on pleasure and pain, Prendick, is the mark of the beast upon them, the mark of the beast from which they came. Pain! Pain and pleasure - they are for us, only so long as we wriggle in the dust... ”
    ― H G Wells
    tags: the-island-of-dr-moreau
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    Jay Asher
    “And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.”
    ― Jay Asher
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
    At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
    When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
    And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    tags: aslan, inspirational, prophecy
    517 likes



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