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“Sometimes 'Stockholm' can actually be a compliment: a dream of somewhere bigger, where we can become someone else. Something that we long for but don't quite dare to do.”

Book:Anxious People

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“It's a cartoon but it's got like the whole meaning of life in it. (road runner) I mean, what doe it tell you? It tells you that your body can be broken but it will mend. It tells you that if you do bad things they will rebound on you. It tells you that death is the end. It tells you that you can walk on air, as long as you don't realize you're doing it.”

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Book:Satellite

Source: Satellite

“Everyone who doesn't see us, doesn't understand us, doesn't care about us.”

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Book:Anxious People

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“People were to be happy not to the extent they dominated their fellow creatures on the earth, but to the extent they lived in balance with them”

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Book:Ecotopia

Source: Ecotopia

“We've created lives where we can watch other people crash into the wall but still hope that somehow we're going to pass straight through it. The closer we get, more confidently we believe that some unlikely solution is miraculously going to save us, while everyone watching us is just waiting for the crash.”

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Book:Anxious People

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“This story is about people, and how they lived; before how and why they died became what defined them.”

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Book:The Mercies

Source: The Mercies

“A good leader is not necessary the one with all good ideas; but able to build from other people's ideas and always give them credit and acknowledge their contribution.”

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Author:Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“She drew in a deep breath, mastering herself. “Forgive me. My nerves are worked to pieces.” “And still you are one of the most composed women of my acquaintance,” I told her truthfully. “Composure that is hard won and the result of long practice,” she assured me. “I learnt long ago that when is only half-British, the other half will be blamed for every evil of temper or habit. I schooled myself in deportment, so that the part of me that is Egyptian may never be held up as a pattern for degradation or vice. I became more British than any Englishwoman I knew. And still, every syllable I speak, every gesture, every thought is examined by society. I could take tea with the Queen at Windsor everyday and twice on Sundays and I would still not be English enough for some.” She spoke without bitterness, but there was a fatigue to her resignation and I began to understand the weight she carried with her at all times.”

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Book:A Treacherous Curse

Source: A Treacherous Curse

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