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“It’s exceedingly difficult for employees to have the company’s back when they can’t trust the company to have theirs. Actually, it’s impossible.”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: empathy, fairness, guidebook, hr-professionals, leadership, organisational-behavior, reality-check, structure, tips-and-tricks, work

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“En todo el mundo, la población humana aumenta en un millón de personas cada cuatro días. Dado que en realidad no somos capaces de captar lo que significan tales cifras, estas seguirán aumentando de forma descontrolada hasta hacernos entrar en crisis, como les ha ocurrido a todas las demás especies que se han hecho demasiado grandes para este contenedor. Lo único que podría cambiar eso, aparte del sacrificio de la extinción voluntaria de toda la especie humana, es que demostráramos que, después de todo, la inteligencia nos hace realmente especiales.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

tags: demografia, distopia, extincion, malthusiana, robert-malthus, superpoblacion

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“You might as well tell God what you think,” I said.”
― Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

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“I lost God in the jungle. Before that, I had the normal sort of watery English Christianity. Out there some men got more religious, others lost it. What kind of god would allow this? etc.”
― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

tags: duality, familial-bonds, grief, hidden-past, memory, psychological-tension, solace, unpredictable, war-aftermath, yearning

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“ Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange