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    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: academic, bias, chemistry, emotional-intelligence, grounded, power-balance, relationship, research, teamwork, workplace-norms
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    “Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: christmas, life, musings, poisoned
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    Isham Cook
    “But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
    ― Isham Cook, Lust and Philosophy
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    Marcia Breece
    “Standing by the tall living room window, Audrey watched the sunset turning red, as if the clouds were soaked with spilled Bordeaux.”
    ― Marcia Breece
    tags: atmospheric-reads, burgundy, family-saga, fiction, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, paris-setting, wine-fiction
    68 likes

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    JoDee Neathery
    “It’s Gabe. He might look at an iceberg floating on the sea and wonder what was under it where I would only be interested in how cold the water must be to keep it solid. He’s pointing at the moon and I’m looking at his finger.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: drama, fiction, guilt, mystery, novel, sorrow, suffering, thriller-novels
    59 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891, they defeated the German expedition against them which was led by Zeleski.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, history, literature, military-campaigns, passion
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    “You can learn to walk away with confidence from any person who threatens your well-being, resting in the knowledge that you can want the best for them, and still walk away.”
    ― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child
    tags: boundaries, emotional-freedom, healing, healing-journey, inner-peace, self-help, self-protection, toxic-relationships
    78 likes

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    Charles Dowding
    “Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
    tags: climate, four-seasons, growing, healthy-vegetable, helpful, how-to, plant-guide, seasons, sustainable
    300 likes

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    N.S. Wikarski
    “This tiny patch of rocky ground took up an immense amount of space in the minds of millions of people, as it had for millennia.”
    ― N.S. Wikarski, The Arkana Mysteries: Omnibus Three: Books 6-8
    tags: archaeology-adventure, historical-thriller, jerusalem, political-suspense, suspense, thriller
    77 likes

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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: judgement, opinion
    176 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “let your love out”
    ― Roald Dahl, The BFG
    tags: realistic
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
    The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
    "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: alcohol, bulgakov, cats, vodka
    420 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm. For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with disgust and loathing.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: vice, virtue
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    John Hersey
    “I have very little,” he said, and he spoke as if having little were the greatest fortune, and the greatest buffer against the future, that a man could wish.”
    ― John Hersey, A Single Pebble
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    Mary Stewart
    “It’s from a play, Tourneur’s Revenger’s Tragedy. “Hell would look like a lord’s great kitchen without fire in’t.”
    ― Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic
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