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Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

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“It’s a bit of sweetness. You deserve it on a birthday. The passage of time. The inevitable. It’s a distraction. Where are we going? What are we doing? Never mind. Have some cake.”

Shiner

by Amy Jo Burns

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The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler—How War Made Them and How They Made War

by Phillips Payson O'Brien

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“But if God love me, Celie, I don’t have to do all that. Unless I want to. There’s a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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“If you ask me, everyone is a little too interested in their children’s happiness. Ask anyone what they wish for their kids and they’ll all say they want them to be happy. Happy! Not empathetic contributing members of society. Not humble, wise and tolerant. Not strong in the face of adversity or grateful in the face of misfortune. I, on the other hand, have always wanted hardship for my kids. Real, honest hardship. Challenges big enough to make them empathetic and wise. Take the pregnant refugee girls I deal with every day. They’ve been through unimaginable hardships, and here they are working hard, contributing and grateful. What more could you want for your kids?”
― Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

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