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How could a woman ever improve when fenced in on all sides by contempt?
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
Why put such a steep value on self-knowledge? Victoria veritatis est caritas. But was the victory of truth really love? Sometimes Mrs Touchet suspected Augustine of Hippo of over-egging the pudding. There are easy, self-serving truths, after all. And difficult, generous lies.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
what was startling, what no one would have anticipated, was that audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare to their other theatrical offerings.
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Station Eleven: A Novel
Emily St. John Mandel
It amused Mrs Touchet and it interested her: how hard it proves to take occupancy of our own feelings. There is a tendency to loan them out to others, especially the dead.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
Our dopamine economy, or what historian David Courtwright has called “limbic capitalism,” is driving this change, aided by transformational technology that has increased not just access but also drug numbers, variety, and potency.
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She frequently referred to the book as her “offspring” or “progeny.”
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
men could control life (and death), then she would not have suffered these tragedies. On the other hand, she wondered what would happen to the special role of women if it was possible to create life via artificial methods.
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
Becoming a person of character means becoming the person God is calling you to be.
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A Culture of Discipline. All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don’t need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don’t need excessive controls. When you combine a... See more
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Jim Collins - Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Do't