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I discovered one cancer research charity that brought in nearly a billion dollars in a single year. Their CEO’s salary was $2.4 million! Not that I think I’m going to be anywhere near that, especially not over just one summer, but it’s nice
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The fact that a cancer nonprofit CEO making millions of dollars is celebrated and encouraged in this book. At no point does she learn how messed up it is for a CEO of a cancer charity to make millions of dollars. This is just part of the issues with Prudence and her extreme capitalist mentality that blind her to honest goodness and morality. For a story entirely about karma and morality, she's a pretty crappy character.
“Sometimes --- in fact, often --- easy is just as good. Things don't need to be complicated.”
― A Hundred Silent Ways
― A Hundred Silent Ways
“Don't let anything or anyone decide for you. It has to be what you want. And never stop pursuing a dream, or an opportunity, because you're trying to be considerate of others.”
― A Hundred Silent Ways
― A Hundred Silent Ways
“He showed me that there was another world where strangers helped strangers for no other reason than that it is good to do so, and where callousness was unusual, not the norm.”
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“Isn't it weird that everything that's coming out of my mouth is going directly into the past?”
― The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
― The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
“My closest friend at this time was my tiny pet dog - it was one of the cute little breeds that people in other countries put frocks on. I wouldn't have been allowed to do that, because putting clothes on dogs was a well-known example of capitalist degeneracy.”
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
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