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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein

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Complaint!

by Sara Ahmed (Goodreads Author)

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Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

by Ashley Herring Blake

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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck)) by Cohn Mike

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User stories start the process by writing down just two pieces of information: each goal to be satisfied by the system and the rough cost of satisfying that goal. This takes just a few sentences and gives you information other approaches ...more

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Billie’s Quotes

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

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“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: loss

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

tags: inspirational

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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