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For a tiny instant Faith wondered whether it would benefit the doctor's investigation if he experienced a cliff fall first-hand.


Frances Hardinge

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FRANCES BEINECKE I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey ...
FRANCES BEINECKE The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels ...
FRANCES BEINECKE Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the sev...
FRANCES BEINECKE Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousan...
FRANCES BEINECKE It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps ...
FRANCES O'GRADY Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
FRANCES WRIGHT But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of t...
FRANCES WRIGHT I am desperately seeking love, but also desperately avoiding it
FRANCES IVY Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at si...
FRANCES WRIGHT The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapi...
FRANCES O'GRADY Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting ...
FRANCES O'GRADY A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of de...
FRANCES WRIGHT I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until...
FRANCES BEINECKE However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in so...
FRANCES WRIGHT Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends...
FRANCES BEINECKE We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we hav...
FRANCES BEINECKE When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must...
FRANCES BEINECKE Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
FRANCES BEINECKE The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Ba...
FRANCES FARMER We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gesture...
FRANCES BEINECKE Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate im...
FRANCES BEINECKE Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon ...
FRANCES BEINECKE Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're goi...
FRANCES MAYES I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue...
FRANCES O'GRADY Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetu...
FRANCES BEINECKE Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil an...
FRANCES BEINECKE The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
FRANCES WILLARD I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
FRANCES WILLARD If you have made it this far doing nothing... imagine what you can do if you actually apply yourself...
J-FRANCES When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmenta...
FRANCES BEINECKE