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“A patriot is not someone who condones the conduct of our country whatever it does. It is someone who fights every day for the ideals of the country, whatever it takes.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“The job of an elected official is not to sing a lullaby and soothe the country into a sense of complacency. The job is to speak truth, even in a moment that does not welcome or invite its utterance.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“It is often the mastery of the seemingly unimportant details, the careful execution of the tedious tasks, and the dedicated work done outside of the public eye that make the changes we seek possible.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“We cannot solve our most intractable problems unless we are honest about what they are, unless we are willing to have difficult conversations and accept what facts make plain.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, Library Edition

“You don’t add the intractable problems to the list because they are new, but because they are big, because people have been fighting against them for dozens—maybe even hundreds—of years, and that duty is now yours. What matters is how well you run the portion of the race that is yours.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“I believe there is no more important and consequential antidote for these times than a reciprocal relationship of trust. You give and you receive trust. And one of the most important ingredients in a relationship of trust is that we speak truth. It matters what we say. What we mean. The value we place on our words - and what they are worth to others.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. 'This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar' she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?”
― Sandi Toksvig

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you. ”
― Nigel Slater

“Sigh. Here's another fine woman that historians can't believe was real. Of course she was real. Not only is there a splendid Chinese poem called "The Ballad of Mulan", there is also an excellent cartoon by Disney.”
― Sandi Toksvig, Heroines & Harridans

“It’s rank cruelty to tell people you saw or heard their performance or read their book without adding some praise - no matter what their fame.”
― Moyra Bremner, Modern Etiquette

“The thing about bozos is that bozos don’t know that they’re bozos. Bozos think they’re the shit, which makes them really annoying but also incredibly entertaining, depending on your point of view. Shrinks call this the Dunning-Kruger effect, named after two researchers from Cornell University whose studies found that incompetent people fail to recognize their own lack of skill, grossly overestimate their abilities, and are unable to recognize talent in other people who actually are competent.”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble

“Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him. If you put a room full of journalists into this situation they would immediately begin ripping on each other, taking the piss out of the instructors, asking intentionally stupid questions. If the boss wants us to waste half a day on Romper Room bullshit, we could at least have some fun. My HubSpot colleagues, however, seem to take the DISC personality assessment seriously. The”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble