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wondering how they had got here topic/heartbreak

[...] She found herself wondering how they had got here. There had been, she remembered, once, an intimacy – one that had existed in the very space they now used as a forum of harm. She remembered how they used to text each other at parties, even when they were standing side by side, maintaining a …

—p.248 Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers
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without giving the impression he’d been thrown

‘Let’s just bear in mind,’ said Hugo, ‘that much as you might like to throw your weight around with regards to offering or withdrawing your support for my campaign, which I assume is what you’re implying with all this vague talk of interests, your project is going to take a hell of a lot longer to …

—p.216 by Sam Byers
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because they’d done it, anyone could do it meh/style

[...] It wasn’t just Handler’s politics that repelled her, it was the entire ideology these life-hacking white boys espoused. Unable to explain their privilege by any other means, they had convinced themselves and others that everything that had landed in their laps had landed there not through bas…

—p.100 by Sam Byers
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the myth that the wealthy deserve to be exploited

With regard to the first, Colin talked at length about the current assault on the rich within national politics, propelled by a secret, but growing, movement toward socialism. High-tax environments like Connecticut, California, New York, and others are, for Colin, essentially “communism,” subscribi…

—p.69 Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell
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we’re going to recycle all of our paper

For example, one housecleaner we interviewed tells of “an experience with a lady that I work for many years ago. She saw me cleaning large windows with paper, and next time I went to her house, she had rags for me, and asked me if I could switch from paper to rags. She explained to me that we had t…

—p.272 by Justin Farrell