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“The truth has no place in a courtroom. The only thing that matters is what the prosecution can prove.”
― The Defence
― The Defence
“It’s curious,” I said slowly. “Miss Marple was saying this evening that that note was all wrong.” “Confound the woman, she couldn’t know more about it if she had committed the murder herself.”
― The Complete Miss Marple Collection
― The Complete Miss Marple Collection
“Men are assumed to be competent until proven otherwise, whereas a woman is assumed to be incompetent until she proves otherwise.”
― The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
― The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
“Will made me say it. Worse, he made me feel it. What will that do to me, to him, to all of us?
How dangerous is my love?”
― The Two Lives of Sara
How dangerous is my love?”
― The Two Lives of Sara
“Sometimes the best lessons we can study are indeed those we should not repeat: that is the case with Sir Francis Drake. Not the legacy to be wished, and of all the admirals in this volume he would be the least admirable, pun intended.”
― Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
― Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
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