Marissa Honeycutt · 2024 pages
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“Sometimes people leave such a deep imprint on our hearts that they never go away.”
― Marissa Honeycutt, quote from The Life of Anna: The Complete Story
“After all, true power was the ability to manipulate others into wanting to do what you wanted them to do.”
― Marissa Honeycutt, quote from The Life of Anna: The Complete Story
“Her giggles were like music to the ear. Like her smiles were beauty to the eyes.
~Alex”
― Marissa Honeycutt, quote from The Life of Anna: The Complete Story
“Fate lies down the path for those strong enough to walk it.
~Sebastian”
― Marissa Honeycutt, quote from The Life of Anna: The Complete Story
“Advantages must be seized or lost. I always choose to seize them.
~Devin”
― Marissa Honeycutt, quote from The Life of Anna: The Complete Story
“The problem with being honorable. Doing things you don't want to do.
~Devin”
― Marissa Honeycutt, quote from The Life of Anna: The Complete Story
“Sometimes people leave such a deep imprint on our hearts that they never go away.
~Hugo”
― Marissa Honeycutt, quote from The Life of Anna: The Complete Story
“Fate lies down the path for those strong enough to walk it.”
― Marissa Honeycutt, quote from The Life of Anna: The Complete Story
“Then give me the order,” he growled. “You know I can’t, Alex. I can't change the plans”
― Marissa Honeycutt, quote from The Life of Anna: The Complete Story
Marissa Honeycutt
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“I thought I might now have an opportunity to speak my last words to a multitude, which I thought would come to see me die; and, thought I, if it must be so, if God will but convert one soul by my very last words, I shall not count my life thrown away, nor lost.”
― John Bunyan, quote from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
“I smiled at these books every time I saw them on my shelves. In many ways I sill feel like an incomplete person, but at least I had those books; I was more complete than anyone unlucky enough not to have them.”
― Josh Hanagarne, quote from The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
“The history of black workers in the United States illustrates the point. As already noted, from the late nineteenth-century on through the middle of the twentieth century, the labor force participation rate of American blacks was slightly higher than that of American whites. In other words, blacks were just as employable at the wages they received as whites were at their very different wages. The minimum wage law changed that. Before federal minimum wage laws were instituted in the 1930s, the black unemployment rate was slightly lower than the white unemployment rate in 1930. But then followed the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938—all of which imposed government-mandated minimum wages, either on a particular sector or more broadly. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which promoted unionization, also tended to price black workers out of jobs, in addition to union rules that kept blacks from jobs by barring them from union membership. The National Industrial Recovery Act raised wage rates in the Southern textile industry by 70 percent in just five months and its impact nationwide was estimated to have cost blacks half a million jobs. While this Act was later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was upheld by the High Court and became the major force establishing a national minimum wage. As already noted, the inflation of the 1940s largely nullified the effect of the Fair Labor Standards Act, until it was amended in 1950 to raise minimum wages to a level that would have some actual effect on current wages. By 1954, black unemployment rates were double those of whites and have continued to be at that level or higher. Those particularly hard hit by the resulting unemployment have been black teenage males. Even though 1949—the year before a series of minimum wage escalations began—was a recession year, black teenage male unemployment that year was lower than it was to be at any time during the later boom years of the 1960s. The wide gap between the unemployment rates of black and white teenagers dates from the escalation of the minimum wage and the spread of its coverage in the 1950s. The usual explanations of high unemployment among black teenagers—inexperience, less education, lack of skills, racism—cannot explain their rising unemployment, since all these things were worse during the earlier period when black teenage unemployment was much lower. Taking the more normal year of 1948 as a basis for comparison, black male teenage unemployment then was less than half of what it would be at any time during the decade of the 1960s and less than one-third of what it would be in the 1970s. Unemployment among 16 and 17-year-old black males was no higher than among white males of the same age in 1948. It was only after a series of minimum wage escalations began that black male teenage unemployment not only skyrocketed but became more than double the unemployment rates among white male teenagers. In the early twenty-first century, the unemployment rate for black teenagers exceeded 30 percent. After the American economy turned down in the wake of the housing and financial crises, unemployment among black teenagers reached 40 percent.”
― Thomas Sowell, quote from Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
“There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.”
― Bruce Lee, quote from Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Our lives are made up of choices. Big ones, small ones, strung together by the thin air of good intentions; a line of dominoes, ready to fall. Which shirt to wear on a cold winter's morning, what crappy junk food to eat for lunch. It starts out so innocently, you don't even notice: go to this party or that movie, listen to this song, or read that book, and then, somehow, you've chosen your college and career; your boyfriend or wife.”
― Abigail Haas, quote from Dangerous Boys
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