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“It’s exceedingly difficult for employees to have the company’s back when they can’t trust the company to have theirs. Actually, it’s impossible.”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“In the conditions of this “New World Order,” a crucial part of the contemporary world economy is a criminal economy, in which the excess profits are accumulated not by the production of material comforts, but by drug-traffic, arms trafficking, and human trafficking, including prostitution. The contemporary world economy is an economy of the global organized criminality whose eminently form is the modern capitalist state. The contemporary world economy is an economy not of the real commodity production, but an economy of the jobbery; this is expressed directly in supply and demand of the capital of the speculation, i.e., in the fictitious capital trade, in the antagonistic games with share capital in the stock exchange. Just Wall Street’s stock exchange, i.e., the world speculative capital market, is the contemporary tremendous pump for inflation of the balloons of the world economic crises, the last one of which began in 2007. The aggregate amount of the bonds on the world market, as many economists know, is over one hundred trillion US dollars! Without taking in mind the derivatives! If including those, the aggregate amount is several times more! This is an enormous balloon as inflated as a red giant star! And when added to this amount the world market of the shares, the passing each other between real and fictitious capital grows to cosmic dimensions! This cosmic balloon will burst very soon! That means the most destructive capitalist crisis in human history lies just round the corner, the global economic apocalypse is just forthcoming! This ruin will be due to the stock exchange antagonistic games, the stock exchange that is, as a matter of fact, a gambling house! Because the securities and shares’ trading is sheer gambling! This becomes clear by the direct proportionality between risk and profitability, the more risk—the more profitability, and vice versa! However, this is gambling in which the stakes are not simply money, but millions and billions of human fates. So, this is a destroying-the-civilization-world crime economy!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“Please understand, Conception of a Dialysis Patient (the untold truths), is for those who have never crossed over, and experienced this world first hand. Tethered to a machine for survival, takes an emotional toll, yes on the patient, but family and friends as well. Anyone who draws breath needs to take this expedition. Dialysis patients, unfortunately, know their untold truths, so this may simply be confirmation of sorts, acknowledgement of their not being alone. This is the point of view of one patient, not a physician. I ask that you and others hear our voices. As the creator of the opus, I have firsthand experience. Removed from the machine, with my second transplant of a lifetime, I am certainly blessed.

My objective is to open everyone’s eyes and minds, especially those of you who never been tethered to a dialysis machine. From my perception, you will value the emotional charge, and destruction dialysis forces upon patients, and their families. Again, the goal is to enlighten, in a manner that is sure to linger, and have you examining your own predicaments.

I so appreciate you passing the word,
Please take that breath with us…

-Fayton”
― Fayton Hollington

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Digo «vagina» porque he leído las estadística, y les están ocurriendo cosas malas a las vaginas de las mujeres de todas partes: 500000 mujeres son violadas todos los años en Estados Unidos; 100 millones de mujeres han sido mutiladas genitalmente en todo el mundo; y la lista continúa. Digo «vagina» porque quiero que se ponga fin a estos horrores. Sé que no dejaran de ocurrir hasta que reconozcamos que sucedan, y la única manera de conseguirlo es capacitar a las mujeres para que se atrevan a hablar de ello sin temor a sufrir castigo o a ser objeto de venganza.
Da miedo decir la palabra. «Vagina.» Al principio tienes la sensación de estar atravesando violentamente una barrera invisible. «Vagina.» Te sientes culpable e incómoda, como si alguien fuese a derribarte de un golpe. Entonces, después de haber dicho la palabra cien o mil veces, se te ocurre es que tu palabra, tu cuerpo, tu lugar más esencial. De repente te das cuenta de que toda la vergüenza y la incomodidad que has sentido hasta entonces al decir la palabra ha sido una forma de silenciar tu deseo, de minar tu ambición”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I'll wave no more flags for home. No tears for Mother. Nobody ever died for apple pie.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War

“One of the novels that was hardest for me to write had to deal with the horrible slaughter of war. I almost didn’t finish Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom for just that reason.”
― Katherine Paterson, Stories of My Life

“It seemed marvelous to see life pump through that strange little body of feathers, wordless noises, milk eyes—much as life pumped through me.”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper