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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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I scheduled a meeting with the union president

You'd think the union would be happy about this development, or at least curious, with an energetic young organizer in their midst. I scheduled a meeting with the union president, looking forward to commiserating about the Imperialist Jackboot on the Necks of the Workers, and the Struggle Against t…

—p.119 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly I Make My Bones (105) by Anthony Bourdain
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there is no life other than this life

I was tired, I explained, and in love, I added, hoping to appeal to that romantic Mediterranean nature I'd read and heard about. 'My girlfriend,' I said,

'I don't see her anymore. . and I miss her. . I have,' I added, 'a life . outside of this place.' I went on to describe going home each night …

—p.117 I Make My Bones (105) by Anthony Bourdain
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character you either have or don't have

Bigfoot understood -- as I came to understand -- that character is far more important than skills or employment history. And he recognized character -- good and bad -- brilliantly. He understood, and taught me, that a guy who shows up every day on time, never calls in sick, and does what he said …

—p.96 Bigfoot (91) by Anthony Bourdain
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a tremendous leap of faith on his part

We met, and I must have looked like a rhesus monkey-the one in the perils-of-freebase commercial, cornered up a tree, shunned by his monkey pals, exhibiting erratic, paranoid and hostile behavior. I was rail-thin, shaky, and the first thing I did was ask my oId pal Bigfoot if he could lend me 25 bu…

—p.95 Bigfoot (91) by Anthony Bourdain
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an extended lecture on the Rape of Nanking

Another class, Oriental Cookery, as I believe it was then called, was pretty funny. The instructor, a capable Chinese guy, was responsible for teaching us the fundamentals of both Chinese and Japanese cooking. The Chinese portion of the class was terrific. When it came time to fill us in on the tas…

—p.40 Inside the CIA (36) by Anthony Bourdain