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Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

by Megan Greenwell (Goodreads Author)

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the classification system exists wholly in the interest of the U.S. government, so if it’s in the interest of public affairs to declassify something, we will. In other words, he seemed to say, the classification system doesn’t exist to keep ...more

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“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“I was told that one senior person at NSF finished reading the trilogy and immediately sold his house and moved into a camper in a trailer park. That’s taking things too far, probably, but I like the impulse, because we read novels to help create our sense of what the world means, to mentally travel in other people’s lives, and to get some laughs. So whether you light out for the territory afterward or not, read on, reader, and may this story help and entertain you. And thanks. Kim Stanley Robinson, February 2015”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Earth

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“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

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“Can you, you know, ask?” “Yeah, no. Basia switched channels on me without leavin’ the old channel open. Not a guy who’s done a lot of tactical comm drills, I’m guessing”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

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