To grow a lot more, Eric has to find a way to multiply himself. He needs to create not just managers out of his workers, but people with the same entrepreneurial spirit. If Eric can't solve that problem, he will be limited by the number of hours he can be in one place at one time in a day.


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At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
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She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...
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I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
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They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
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That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
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Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
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I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
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I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
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Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
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Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
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Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
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I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
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There are much worse games to play.
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Some walks you have to take alone.
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You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y...
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I must have loved you a lot.
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Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
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What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...
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You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
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The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
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For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
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You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
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I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
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Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
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And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
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I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
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Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
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Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
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Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
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You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
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Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
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It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
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While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
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Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
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Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
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Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
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Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
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But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
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The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
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She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
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When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
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But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
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Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
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He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
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But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
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Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
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It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
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If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
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Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
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Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
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Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
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I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
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I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
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Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
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