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#1 I crash through the screen door of the fourplex, holding a two-by-four above my head. I am not being followed, so I cry and laugh and scream. I park the car outside the police station and pound on the glass separating me from the two female dispatchers.
#2 When I was brought to the hospital, The Detective led me through a set of automatic sliding glass doors that...
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#1 Zen Buddhism is a form of Buddhism that emphasizes meditation. It was started by a group of Buddhists who wanted to get back to the basics of what the Buddha had taught, dropping most of the dogmas and rituals.
#2 Zen Buddhism is not a set of beliefs and dogmas, but a way to learn to see what reality actually is beyond all beliefs and dogmas. We can't see the true...
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#1 I had known David Niven almost all of my life. I had met him in Hollywood just after the war when I was a child living with my grandmother, Gladys Cooper, who was to work with him in both The Bishop's Wife and Separate Tables. I had written magazine and Times profiles of him occasionally.
#2 The author realized that David had a book to write after hearing David's...
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#1 I learned hope the hard way. In September 2014, I was arrested while recording the police brutality in St. Louis. I was surrounded by officers, and one of them threatened to tase me. But instead of fear, I felt calmness wash over me. I've received many death threats over the years, but none have shaken me like that day when the car was in front of my house after...
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Book Preview: #1 When I was 11, I learned that my grandfather had leukemia. I felt a deep sense of guilt because I knew he was going to die, and yet I had demanded to see him. I understood why I had been in such a panic to see him.
#2 I had a dream one week after my grandfather passed away. In the dream, I was an actress living in Australia. I felt beautiful, and suddenly felt...
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#1 Fear is a major factor in people's inability to negotiate. It affects people who negotiate every day, whether they are executives or not. The biggest fears are losing the deal and damaging the relationship.
#2 People are often afraid to negotiate for themselves. They fear that the other side will walk away and lose the deal, particularly when the negotiator does not...
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#1 I live on the other side of a concrete wall that cuts through the landscape we share. I can just barely see the checkpoint you must cross to enter Jerusalem, but I sense the checkpoint's all-pervading presence.
#2 I wanted to see if Jews and Muslims could share something of God's presence, and be religious people together in this place where God's name is so often...
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#1 I was one and a half years old when I had my first whole memory. I was locked alone in my room with my brother on the other side of the door, laughing. I was wet-faced and shrieking, and I needed my mother to pick me up and place me back in my box.
#2 I can remember my father being at the farmhouse in Hadley, but I can't remember him ever being there with us. I can...
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Get the Summary of David Crow's The Pale-Faced Lie in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who loved to tell his children about his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified...
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Get the Summary of Jim Camp's Start with No in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: For years now, win-win has been the paradigm for business negotiation. But today, win-win is just the seductive mantra used by the toughest negotiators to get the other side to compromise unnecessarily, early, and often. Win-win negotiations play to your emotions and take advantage of your instinct and desire...
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#1 The most important concept in accounting is the accounting equation, which is made up of the following four elements: assets, liabilities, expenses, and equity. You will need to understand these elements to understand how to categorize your assets, expenses, and liabilities.
#2 The two sides of the accounting equation are always equal to each other. For every transaction...
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#1 I am in New Hampshire just over a month later, and it's raining. Twenty feet across from me, on the other side of a backyard pool, Donald Trump is scolding me. How does he even know my name.
#2 I came back to America because of a boy named Aaron, a severely ill teen who asked to shadow me for a day through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
#3 Trump was so unexpected that...
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Book Preview:#1 I first met Trump in 2004 to discuss his New Jersey casinos. I enjoyed working with him, and Atlantic City proved to be a good investment for him. However, no lawyer could make Atlantic City profitable.
#2 I suffered a loss when my father passed away. I was extremely close with him, and he was the one who taught me about the Jewish faith. I observed seven days of shiva...
14) Summary of Deepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman's Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and A
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Get the Summary of Deepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman's Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Whether you've "seen it all" or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands...
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Get the Summary of Christopher Mims' Arriving Today in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He analyzes the evolving technologies and management strategies necessary to keep the product moving...
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Book Preview: #1 I am the fourth child of my mother, and my father was the thirty-ninth. I grew up in the Mexican countryside town of Colonia LeBaron, founded by my grandfather after he received a vision from God.
#2 I loved going to church with my family. I was always late, though, because I was fascinated by my sister's eyelashes.
#3 My mother, who was also the prophet's wife,...
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#1 I was a French socialite groomed to marry rich. I did not care about that, though, because I was in love with someone else: Richard, my American painter and flamenco guitarist.
#2 I was nervous climbing the stairs to the servants' quarters, but I was also excited for the new life that awaited me on the other side. I was climbing beyond the gray, hidden world...
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Book Preview:#1 On November 15, 2018, I learned that I had lost the election by a margin of 54,723 votes. My conversation with my campaign manager, Lauren Groh-Wargo, was perfunctory. We discussed the hard truth of the likely outcome and made preparations for the next day.
#2 The campaign had sent volunteers and staff across Georgia to chase provisional ballots from voters who'd stood...
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#1 I have always had an attraction to the absence of something, whether it was sadness or something else. I was a tomboy as a child, until I wasn't. There was no bridge to the other side.
#2 When I was twelve, I went to the mall with my mother to get makeup applied to my face. I was terrified of the idea, but my mother insisted that I do it. The experience taught me...
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#1 The goals of being successful and being happy are simple, but they are difficult to achieve. We tend to fall off our New Year's resolution bandwagon quickly, but we continue to think that next year will be the year we stick with it.
#2 You were not put on this earth to simply watch the game of life, but to change it. You are here to be a game changer not only for...