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“Like financial investments, company harassment of employees generally has a long term payback as their victims organize and tell their horror stories to the world.”

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“Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion.”

Religion Exercise Worship Princess Diana

Book:When will there be good news?

Source: When will there be good news?

“First draft blues: "He tested the stick and glanced at the set handbrake. With his feet he felt the accelerator, the brake, the clutch. Backwards, but otherwise just the same, and comforting in a solid, mechanical way. It even smelled right, oil, petrol, lubricated warm metal, and the polished windshield seemed transparent in the night’s silver flood.”

Funny Bloopers First Draft Rough Draft

Book:Deal With the Devil, Part One

Source: Deal With the Devil, Part One

“If I know one thing, it's of the inductive nature of failures.”

Learning From Failures

Author:RyLee Harrison

“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”

Internet 21st Century Computers Y2k

Author:Douglas Adams

“Do you think the Y2K thing is going to mess everything up? Katie asked. "I don't know. I think everything's already messed up after Columbine. Like, what kind of world do we live in if you can get shot up in your high school?" "That was horrible. But I think it's kind of a one-time thing. People won't stand for that kind of tragedy to keep happening.”

Gun Violence Columbine School Shootings Y2k

Book:All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

Source: All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Dad called it Y2K. On January 1, he said, computer systems all over the world would fail. There would be no electricity, no telephones. All would sink into chaos, and this would usher in the Second Coming of Christ.”

Christ Mormon Second Coming Y2k

Book:Educated

Source: Educated

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