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The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere

by Nicholas Triolo

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Winter's Tales

by Isak Dinesen

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Liz’s Notes & Highlights

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The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems) by Alice Walker

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You want to grow old Like The Carters; Curing blindness & Building houses For The Poor; Making friends of those Who believe They must fight. You want to grow old Like The Carters Holding hands With someone You love & Riding bicycles ...more

Starter Villain

by John Scalzi

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The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Liz’s Quotes

“It’s sometimes surprising how people can open up when you demonstrate a willingness to listen to their stories with attentiveness and respect.”
― Kevin Fedarko, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

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“Thou shalt not” is soon forgotten, but “Once upon a time” lasts forever.”
― Kevin Fedarko, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

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“A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

tags: gender-gap, glass-ceiling, women, work

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“There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: beauty-in-nature, inspiration

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“And Petschek had asked—because he was genuinely puzzled by this—why so many people, Americans especially, seemed to feel that happiness was an entitlement. By dint of his own experiences as a refugee and a wanderer, Petschek found the notion to be strangely naive and immature—especially here at the bottom of a chasm whose ramparts offered such irrefutable testimony not only to the smallness of human affairs but also to the universe’s implacable indifference to those hopes and longings. Yet”
― Kevin Fedarko, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

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