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| 9f3c4a9 | The renowned British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead recognized this inescapable quality of modern life when he asserted that "civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them." Take, for example, the "advance" offered to civilization by the discount coupon, which allows consumers to assume that they will receive a reduced purchase price by presenting the coupon." | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| ae935b4 | Therefore, it is possible to attach this pleasant feeling, this positive attitude, to anything (political statements being only an example) that is closely associated with good food. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 6b972f6 | Zadny vudce nemuze doufat, ze se mu podari, dusledne a bez pomoci dalsich osob, presvedcit vsechny cleny skupiny. Silny vudce ovsem muze rozumne predpokladat, ze presvedci urcity rozsahlejsi pocet clenu skupiny. Pak uz pouha informace, ze podstatna cast clenu skupiny byla presvedcena, muze sama o sobe presvedcit zbytek. Proto byvaji nejvlivnejsimi vudci ti, kdo vedi, jak zaridit, aby podminky ve skupine umoznily, ze princip socialniho schva.. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 7a41ca5 | Jsou to lide, kteri maji skrytou vadu osobnosti - nizke sebepojeti. Hluboko uvnitr je pocit, ze jejich osoba ma malou cenu, a to je nuti vyhledavat prestiz ne prostrednictvim vytvareni nebo vylepsovani vlastnich vysledku, ale skrze vytvareni ci vylepsovani asociaci s vysledky druhych. V nasi kulture se dari nekolika variantam tohoto druhu. Klasickym prikladem jsou ti, kdo se vytrvale ohaneji slavnymi jmeny. Dalsi predstavuji fanynky rockovy.. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 7a9dbc9 | I see poisoners--so calculating, so cold-blooded--as most like the villains of our horror stories. They're closer to that lurking monster in the closet than some drug-impaired crazy with a gun. I don't mean to dismiss the latter--both can achieve the same awful results. But the scarier killer is the one who thoughtfully plans his murder ahead, tricks a friend, wife, lover into swallowing something that will dissolve tissue, blister skin, tw.. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 3fdf4c8 | And it wasn't just one warning. Eight years before the Panel on Climate Change's report, an assessment of global warming's impacts in New York City had also cautioned of potential flooding. "Basically pretty much everything that we projected happened," says Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the cochair of the Panel on Climate Change and coauthor of that 2001 report." | Deborah Blum | ||
| 42a5e26 | But with sea levels rising along the East Coast--a natural phenomenon accelerated by climate change--scientists project that in our lifetimes what was once considered a hundred-year flood will happen every three to twenty years. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 46042e9 | Even in the heyday of frozen concentrate, the popularity of orange juice rested largely on its image as the ultimate natural beverage, fresh squeezed from a primordial fruit. But the reality is that human intervention has modified the orange for millenniums, as it has almost everything people eat. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 721020c | He confessed to stalking, torturing, and assaulting 400 children while traveling the country. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 53d1d25 | Henry Adams: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." | Deborah Blum | ||
| 744e5df | Torcida told me a creation story of his people and why they consider Mount Gorongosa sacred. In early times, he said, God lived with his people on the mountain. Humans were giants then and not afraid to ask God for special favors. In a drought they would say, Bring us water. The Creator, growing tired of their constant importuning, moved his residence up to heaven. Still the giant people persisted, reaching up from the mountain. At last, to.. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 510e714 | We typically think of stress as being a risk factor for disease," said Cole. "And it is, somewhat. But if you actually measure stress, using our best available instruments, it can't hold a candle to social isolation. Social isolation is the best-established, most robust social or psychological risk factor for disease out there. Nothing can compete." | Deborah Blum | ||
| cb4da43 | Standard Oil issued a cool response: "These men probably went insane because they worked too hard," according to the building manager. And those who didn't survive had merely worked themselves to death. Other than that, the company didn't see a problem." | Deborah Blum | ||
| 978e665 | Other mysteries have been untangled. Redheads are known to feel pain especially acutely. This confused researchers until someone realized that the same genetic mutation that causes red hair also increases sensitivity to pain. One study found that redheaded patients require about 20 percent more general anesthesia than brunettes. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 32646cf | From almost every standpoint ethyl alcohol must be regarded as the most important poison with which medical men and jurists have to deal," Gettler wrote in a paper, listing a seemingly endless record of fatalities. "No other poison causes so many deaths or leads to or intensifies so many diseases, both physical and mental, as does [this] alcohol in the many forms in which it is taken." | Deborah Blum | ||
| 70a3dda | We drove through the Old Dominion University campus, where a small permanent lake has formed in the back corner of a huge parking lot. "You can't pave under water," he noted dryly, "so this obviously wasn't under water when this parking lot was paved." | Deborah Blum | ||
| bcb4e32 | As we transform ourselves into creatures of the screen, we face an existential question: Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 09c642f | Government reporters may cover City Hall. Education reporters may write about schools and school boards. Science writers may report on asteroids one day, HIV vaccine experiments the next, sonar technology the next, a universe without boundaries. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 6aadd05 | As the mother of the ten-month-old hospitalized in San Diego said, if people want to make that choice, they should go live on an island with its own schools and doctors: "their own little infectious disease island." | Deborah Blum | ||
| bdf8600 | death certificates were filled out with no effort at determining cause. Among the entries were 'could be suicide or murder,' and 'either assault of diabetes.' In one instance, a coroner had attributed a death to 'diabetes, tuberculosis, or nervous indigestion.' A few death certificates simply read 'act of God. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 0cd5369 | A growing body of scientific research links antibiotic use in animals to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria: in the animals' own guts, in the manure that farmers use on crops or store on their land, and in human illnesses as well. Resistant bacteria move from animals to humans in groundwater and dust, on flies, and via the meat those animals get turned into. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 8e29eb5 | Massachusetts is seeing a surge in the number of unvaccinated children. Last year nearly 1,200 kids entered kindergarten with religious or philosophical vaccine exemptions, roughly double the total about a decade ago. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 79824dc | Why would we have evolved this way? The most probable answer is that an organism that responds quickly to fast-changing social environments will more likely survive them. That organism won't have to wait around, as it were, for better genes to evolve on the species level. Immunologists discovered something similar twenty-five years ago: adapting to new pathogens the old-fashioned way--waiting for natural selection to favor genes that create.. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 6f2db21 | During the previous summer U.S. public health workers had accidentally killed four sailors, on two different foreign vessels, by fumigating against possible plague-carrying rats. | Deborah Blum | ||
| e334d5f | Your subjective experience carries more power than your objective situation. If you feel like you're alone even when you're in a room filled with the people closest to you, you're going to have problems. If you feel like you're well supported even though there's nobody else in sight; if you carry relationships in your head; if you come at the world with a sense that people care about you, that you're valuable, that you're okay; then your bo.. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 9e94dbc | shared pain is central to what it means to be a human being," but we are a society that values the anesthetic over pain. We hide our prisons, our sick, our mad, and our poor; we expend colossal resources to live in padded, temperature-controlled environments that make few demands on our bodies or our minds. We come up with elaborate means of not knowing about the suffering of others and of blaming them when we do." | Deborah Blum | ||
| 368dcd3 | We think of kindness as an emotional quality, but it's also an act of imagination, of extending yourself beyond yourself, of feeling what you do not feel innately by invoking it. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 439eab8 | In Washington, D.C., where the Volstead Act--which provided for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment--had been militantly approved, the police reported nearly a ten-fold increase in drunk driving arrests since the legislation was enacted. | Deborah Blum | ||
| 0980586 | Bettinger bought his first genetic test in 2003. A few years later he launched a blog--The Genetic Genealogist--with the aim of explaining the science behind the tests in simple language. | Deborah Blum | ||
| a6e0e6e | She'd never find another man like him as long as she lived. He was ruining her for any other, and the pleasure of it was beyond bearing. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| bda50d2 | I want to make you weep. I want all your pleasure, Iris, all your pain, everything you are. Come for me." And she felt herself bow with the stark white bliss of her epiphany, the shattering realization of his words and his hands and his mouth. She was gasping for breath, shaking, lost, unseeing. The center of her being pulsing with pleasure." | passionate-love | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 647493d | Briefly, he tried to imagine any of his previous, male secretaries daring to comment on his appearance. It was impossible. In fact, he couldn't think of anyone, save his current female secretary, who made such impertinent comments to him. Oddly, he found her impertinence endearing. Not that he let it show. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 38c6e85 | You're burning," she gasped. "Then you ought not to touch me," he said seriously. "You'll be consumed." "Too late," she muttered, and pivoted, trying to drag him, he presumed, toward the bed. "You're awfully heavy--" "My soul is made of lead." "--and you're delirious," she ended decisively. "I need to get help." | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 26c503e | When he died, she took her hopes for a child and wrapped them carefully in a box and buried that box deep, deep in her heart. So deep, she thought never to face that dream again. Except, with one sentence, Edward had exhumed the box and ripped it open. And her hopes, her dreams, her need to bear a child were as fresh now as they had been when she was newly wed. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 6f1d3fb | She stood, a little unsteadily, true, but on her own two feet. "It's not my blindness that cripples me, it's everyone else deciding I can't live because of my blindness. If I stumble, if I run into things and fall and hurt myself it's because I can and I'm free to do so, Maximus. Because without that freedom I'm just a dull, chained thing and I won't be that woman anymore. I simply won't, Maximus." | freedom | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| fac66f8 | I don't want you hurt," he said gruffly. "I know." Her smile was winsome. "But falling isn't the end of the world. I may fall, it's true--in fact, I probably will fall--but really, one can't live without falling now and again." | love | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 03dff86 | She wanted to ride him, wanted to hide him away in her bedroom, to use only for herself. She was jealous of every woman who had come before her. Had used this wonderful penis. Had heard his groan. She opened her eyes. But it was the women who would come after that she truly wanted to kill. He was hers. He should never share this part of himself with anyone else. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 11f175a | He couldn't take it anymore. He wrapped his hand around the back of her head and pulled her up, pulled her across his chest, pulled her into a kiss so filthily explicit his tongue might as well have been fucking her mouth. They groaned in unison and he wrapped his hand over hers, forcing her fingers tight around his erection, showing her how to pull up, the loose skin sliding over his hot core--oh, sweet, sweet God--and down, fisting tight,.. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 426b151 | She threw back her head, riding him hard, the sweat sliding down between her breasts. He lurched up, half sitting, his arm propping him up, and licked the sweat from her body. She cried out, gasping, holding his head to her even as he sucked one nipple into his mouth. She felt the pull, felt the answering gush, and knew she was falling apart, spreading outward, a star exploding. He gasped and let go of her breast, bowing his head to her che.. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| f63df33 | Whatever else came tomorrow and for the rest of her life, she would have this moment: this one point in time when she was intimately linked to Maximus. Maximus the man. | duke-of-midnight elizabeth-hoyt maximus | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 0802e80 | Diana," he murmured in her ear, licking. "Diana, you are everything I've ever wanted and shall never have." Tears pricked at her eyes and she opened her mouth to sob. "That's it," he said. "Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else." | duke-of-midnight elizabeth-hoyt maximus | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| f5610f8 | He glanced up at her and somehow he'd come back to himself, contained all that terrible sorrow and anger and fear, enough to make ten strong men fall down like babes. Maximus held it all inside of him and straightened his shoulders, his chin level, and Artemis couldn't understand it--where he got the strength to hide that awful, bloody wound in his soul--but she admired him for it. Admired him and loved him. She felt an answering wound open.. | duke-of-midnight elizabeth-hoyt maximus | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 31eb8a9 | Lieutenant Cranston, sitting across the tavern table from him, looked startled. "Something amiss, Captain?" "It's as I feared--we've been called back to sea early. We set sail in less than a" | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 6707f87 | Percy romped up and dropped a sadly mangled, dead frog at her feet, then backed away and sat proudly by his prize, looking at Miss Greaves as if expecting praise. She absently ruffled the spaniel's ears. | Elizabeth Hoyt |