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literature is credible only if it exposes itself why/write

[...] The emergence of the novel in the sixteenth century and its development since the eighteenth century are inconceivable without the incorporation of economic and media-related conditions. In particular, the realistic novel owes its existence to the upheavals in economics and media in connectio…

—p.91 Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author: On Storytelling, Business, and Literature by Philipp Schonthaler
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parallel development of management theory and consulting

The emergence of modern management theory coincides with the birth of business consulting, an indication of their shared genesis in the new culture of efficiency. [...] Harrington Emerson (1906), Gilbreth Inc. (1912), and Booz Allen HAmilton (1914), were founded. The nearly parallel development of…

—p.48 by Philipp Schonthaler
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are we all building the world we all want?

[...] In a post from February 2017 with the heading "Building Global Community," Mark Zuckerberg was ostensibly reacting to the trauma caused by Donald Trump's presidency. [...] "Are we all building the world we all want?" The sentence's rhetorical test lies not in its content but rather inits form…

—p.24 by Philipp Schonthaler
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Donna enjoyed Mary Kay oils

“Oh, really?” I asked, feigning interest. Donna enjoyed Mary Kay oils, which left a film that stuck to the side of the bathtub like Velcro, collecting every hair, every dead skin cell that came off her. It was hard to have conversations with her without seeing flashes of it. I never knew if she exp…

—p.150 Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephanie Land
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my tax money’s paying for all of that

When I’d moved into the homeless shelter, I had called Melissa, one of my oldest friends, and she listened as I went through my plans for rebuilding my life. Nearly all of those plans involved the help of some form of government assistance: food stamps, WIC checks for milk, gas vouchers, low-income…

—p.110 by Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephanie Land