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“Hugh le Despencer the Elder was speaking to his son, Hugh le Despencer the Younger. He said, “Son, given that you are effeminate and lack manly qualities, I think that the way for you for you to improve your lot in life is to become the King’s Chamberlain.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: british-history, documentary, drama, historical, isabella, king-edward-ii, real-life, research, royalty, truth

179 likes

“Don’t bother to have your thugs break into my house when you give me an out-of-town assignment, Ms. Jones,” James Ed said. “They won’t find anything. My tape will be in safekeeping at Farmer’s Bank.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

tags: bureaucratic-challenges, generational-wisdom, influential-leaders, moral-courage, professional-integrity, public-service-career, reform-movement, rural-america, school-leadership, systematic-change

75 likes

“Even though it's only a minority of men who are violent or predatory, I don't know if men realise that girls are trained our entire lives to minimise the danger from you - and blamed if we don't.”
― Sara Pascoe

427 likes

“Boson forces don't exist in Quantum space. The Light of the World is only found this side of the Timewall.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

248 likes

“Well, it’s like this, Edward. There is a cosmic certainty to things. An order. There are places, like Earth, where time passes. People live, then die. And there are places like this, outside of time, where existence goes on forever.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live