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| e0ff53d | testament to the human capacity to adapt (or, less charitably, to our ability to operate in ignorance). | Charles C. Mann | ||
| ba9742f | By fall the settlers' situation was secure enough that they held a feast of thanksgiving. Massasoit showed up with ninety people, most of them young men with weapons. The Pilgrim militia responded by marching around and firing their guns in the air in a manner intended to convey menace. Gratified, both sides sat down, ate a lot of food, and complained about the Narragansett. Ecce Thanksgiving. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 7a33037 | A prerequisite for a successful scientific career is an enthusiastic willingness to pore through the minutiae of subjects that 99.9 percent of Earth's population find screamingly dull. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 64e367a | Both choices led to social unrest: the Jacquerie (France, 1358), the Revolt of Ciompi (Florence, 1378), the Peasants' Revolt (England, 1381), the Catalonian Rebellion (Spain, 1395), and dozens of flare-ups in the German states. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 8d3bcc7 | What Vogt saw in Peru would crystallize his picture of the world and the human place in it--a vision of limitation. It would bring him to the Prophet's essential belief: humans have no special dispensation to escape biological constraints. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 158fcfc | Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could not, know is that the epidemics shot out like ghastly arrows from the limited areas they saw to every corner of the hemisphere, wreaking destruction in places that never appeared in the European historical record. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 042ca4f | Dobyns argued that the Indian population in 1491 was between 90 and 112 million people. Another way of saying this is that when Columbus sailed more people lived in the Americas than in Europe. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 82e4473 | One way to sum up the new scholarship is to say that it has begun, at last, to fill in one of the biggest blanks in history: the Western Hemisphere before 1492. It was, in the current view, a thriving, stunning diverse place, a tumult of languages, trade, and culture, a regiin where tens of millions of people loved and hated and worshipped as people do everywhere. Much of this world vanished after Columbus, swept away by disease and subjuga.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 8a5da02 | He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character" | Charles C. Mann | ||
| fa9cecc | When microbes arrived in the Western Hemisphere, he argued, they must have swept from the coastlines first visited by Europeans to inland areas populated by Indians who had never seen a white person. Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could not, know is that the epidemics shot out like ghastly arrows from the limited areas they saw to eve.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| cf3e977 | Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. Annually burning undergrowth, clearing and replanting forests, building canals and raising fields, hunting bison and netting salmon, growing maize, manioc, and the Eastern Agricultural Complex, Native Americans had been managing their environment for thousands of years. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| a3a4ee8 | A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| aba36e6 | To lie flat on the ground with the breath knocked out of you is to find a solid resting place. This is as low as you can go. You told yourself you would die if it ever came to this, but here you are. You cannot help yourself and yet you live. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c22ad3f | A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness? | strength | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 97c10a7 | Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol. | god life-lessons pain simple-truths symbolism | Brandi L. Bates | |
| fe7cd8f | partner ACC Colin Carswell based at police HQ Sir David Strathern chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police Jean Burchill Rebus's current partner, museum curator | Ian Rankin | ||
| 7df8714 | muted 'thanks' as the person moved away. 'It | Ian Rankin | ||
| ee966e4 | Groynes divided the mostly sandy beach into neat compartments. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 5ee77ef | The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will. In "Selected Civil War Letters of Edwine Willow," edited by Constance Mays. With" | George Saunders | ||
| f43dc2f | And yet it was not authentic, of course, because no real boardwalk of 1910 had been this perfect. It was like a fondly remembered nostalgic confection, a past sanitized of its imperfections, buttressed by an arsenal of hidden technology. | Lincoln Child | ||
| aa19c93 | We have, what, 66,000-odd guests here today? And not one of them retains even an infant's sense of self-preservation. They checked their fight-or-flight instincts at the door. That's what they're paying for. They see a fire, hear an explosion, feel their roller coaster begin to shear off its track--what are they gonna do? Laugh all the harder. Because they think it's part of the act. That makes every last one of them a sitting duck. | Lincoln Child | ||
| 496f5fb | Your hearing is fine. That's for sure. What's the longest word in the Gettysburg Address?" "Which symptom is that?" "Thinking." He thought. "There are three. All with eleven letters. Proposition, battlefield, and consecrated." "Now recite the first sentence. Like you were an actor on a stage." "Lincoln was coming down with smallpox at the time. Did you know that?" "That's not it." "I know. That was for extra credit on memory." | Lee Child | ||
| ad74943 | If you are going to walk on thin ice, he said, you might as well dance. | Lincoln Child | ||
| 1bb147d | And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I'm about to speak--though I speak them with some regret, since I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain't no Nessie." This" | Lincoln Child | ||
| 6438b85 | The death of his child) "was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look outside of his own mind and heart for help to endure a personal grief. It was the first time in his life when he had not been sufficient for his own experience." | grief trials weakness | Elton Trueblood | |
| a42a2a2 | With his ship faced with the danger of sinking, the Richard's chief gunner screamed to the Serapis, "Quarter! quarter! for God's sake!" Jones hurled a pistol at the man, felling him. But the cry had been heard by Pearson, the Serapis' commander, who called, "Do you ask for quarter?" Through the clash of battle, gunshot and crackle of fire the famous reply came faintly back to him: "I have not yet begun to fight!" Making good his boast, Jone.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a1a6a40 | In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the ne.. | corporate-culture corporate-world drama fake faking mask masks moral morality phony self-control smile smiling theatre | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 8c0441c | rather than hanging around like a fart under a duvet. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 45d89c3 | The night of the fireworks changed the course of many lives in England, though no one suspected the dark future as hundreds of courtiers stared, faces upturned in delight, at the starbursts of crimson, green, and gold that lit up the terraces, gardens, and pleasure grounds of Rosethorn House, the country home of Richard, Baron Thornleigh. That night, no one was more proud to belong to the baron's family than his eighteen-year-old ward, Just.. | historical-novel | Barbara Kyle | |
| 1084633 | When Richard Jackson calls obesity a "disease of the environment," the setting he's taking issue with is the one we've built with human ingenuity. The food we've tinkered with." | Barbara Natterson-Horowitz | ||
| ef17499 | Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves. Richard J. Leider | Barbara Meiklejohn-Free | ||
| d537130 | Hardy reinforces his narrative with stories of heroes who didn't have the right education, the right connections, and who could have been counted out early as not having the DNA for success: "Richard Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance as a student. Steve Jobs was born to two college students who didn't want to raise him and gave him up for adoption. Mark Cuban was born to an automobile upholsterer. He started as a barten.. | Carmine Gallo | ||
| 978119b | she couldn't quite see herself in it. When they were done, I read the Shakespeare sonnet that begins "Fear no more the heat o' the Sun," partly because it was appropriate to the occasion and one of the most beautiful poems in the language, but also because I hoped it might hide from my loved ones the fact that I myself had nothing to say, that while part of me was here with them on this beloved shore, another part was wandering, as it had b.. | Richard Russo | ||
| e37c5a5 | I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit...DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing. | financial-wisdom greatness lessons-of-life love marriage relationships soledad-francis success truth wealth | Brandi L. Bates | |
| 3451fbe | The online world could stuff that in its pipe and vape it. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 769f424 | Semper Vigilo - that's our motto,' Rebus said, | Ian Rankin | ||
| 003e64a | In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 92696ac | Effective people are busy people. Religious people are busy people. For millions and millions of people, busy-ness is The Way of Life. "How are you?" "Busy like crazy, but what else is new? And you?" Some busy people cannot even tell the difference between relaxation and narcolepsy, because the minute they sit down in a quiet place alone, they nod off." | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| df4e792 | The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs. | ascension atlanta belize brandi-bates human-nature knowledge locs love luxury mindfulness motivation natural-hair new-thought quotes science success vegan wisdom women-of-color | Brandi L. Bates | |
| ac03083 | When we arrived in this large room, Rockwell put a fluorescent marker down where we entered so we could find the way back out again. When Hurd failed to do that, her teacher corrected her. "In a cave," she told Hurd, "always, always look back. Every few minutes, turn around. Nothing looks the same coming out as it did going in, so you have to memorize the backsides of every boulder, the shape of the hole you've just come through, see the re.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| f9178e1 | Anyone who stands up in front of other human beings to speak knows what a frightful gift it is. This power of ours has no safety catch on it. We are as likely to make nothing out of something as the other way around. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| f0571bd | here is the testimony of faith: darkness is not dark to God; the night is as bright as the day. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 9cabb30 | The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me, is to convince people to set the written word down in order to become living words in the world for God's sake. For me, this willing conversion of ink back to blood is the full substance of faith. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 19db96e | Because Jesus died instead of ushering in the messianic age, Paul responded with a doctrine of atonement. Because the risen Christ struck his followers as very close kin to God, the early church responded with a doctrine of the Trinity. Because Christians did not turn out to be much better behaved than anyone else, Augustine responded with a doctrine of original sin. The doctrines are works of genius, for the most part, but like books they .. | doctrine | Barbara Brown Taylor |