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Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla

by John J. O'Neill

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Mar 05, 2012 01:13PM

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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

by Richard Florida

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Mar 05, 2012 01:12PM

“Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers—vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse

tags: beguiling, compensation, deceit, destruction, retaliation, retribution, revenge, richelle, richelle-goodrich, vengeance

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“A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: corruption, deceit, dishonesty, irony, lies, politics, truth, war, youth

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“So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: betrayal, choices, class, conflict, conned, cruelty, deceit, dignity, dismissal, family, friends, games, hateful, hatred, healing, hurt, ignorance, inhumanity, lessons, letting-go, love, mean-people, mind-games, moving-on, overlooked, pain, rejection, relationships, resolutions, revenge, self-absorbed, self-respect, self-worth, selfishness, vengful

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“Caravaggio was constantly diverted by the human element during burglaries. Breaking into a house during Christmas, he would become annoyed if the Advent calendar had not been opened up to the date to which it should have been.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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