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“I knew I rode a rugged crest of turmoil that might crash on the rocky shore of irrational behavior.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow
“Focusing on and prioritizing civil discourse ensures that you don’t miss great opportunities to learn and grow with others.”
― I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
― I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
― Get Rich or Get Lucky
― Get Rich or Get Lucky
“The Kielburgers are extremely accomplished and educated people who have demonstrated that they know how to build an organization, sell a vision, and court powerful people. If they had wanted to make loads of money and eat caviar on a private yacht, they could have taken lucrative private-sector jobs and done just that. It is absurd to think that they instead decided to work sixteen-hour days for twenty-five years, spend hundreds of days per year apart from their families, and invest everything they had in building a global charity—all as a means to funnel money back to themselves.”
― What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
― What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
“The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
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