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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e913c93 | By contrast, the subsequent waves of Puritans in their search for profits quickly uprooted all natives and sold many of them into slavery without bothering to extend to them the right to become Christian before being sold or killed. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 3d4e565 | the word algorithm was derived from al Khwarizm | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 8667047 | From riding nearly fifty miles in one day on a horse, I learned that the fifteen feet of silk tied tightly around the midriff actually kept the organs in place and prevented nausea. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 80796ce | prudent, steadfast, and courageous. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 7bc440f | fame is everlasting! | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 85943f9 | You have to remember life is short, but | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 95f2e1d | He considered betrayal of duty, cowardice, lying, and laziness the vilest of all sins, and he praised those who put personal honor above their well-being, or even their life. He knew he could never depend on those who valued riches over honor. "Such people are base, craven, and they are slaves by nature," wrote Juvaini. "Genghis Khan despised and destroyed them without mercy."22" | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 3eade6a | for Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| d89004d | called aral, "island," in Mongolian." | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 72cba68 | He had far more goods now than he could possibly use or distribute to his people, and he wanted to use this vast amount of new resources to stimulate trade. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| e8825ed | This information in turn greatly influenced our understanding of Genghis Khan's field methods and how he treated hostile civilians as animals to be herded but hostile soldiers as game to be hunted. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 198bd07 | Tobacco was the first of the New World drugs to be widely accepted in the Old World, and the European zest for it played a major role in opening North America to colonization. Contemporary civic mythology of the United States overlooks this role of America as drug supplier to the world. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 6c72ab4 | It was almost as though they wanted to reach back through the centuries to offer these small gifts of nourishment and warmth to the fleeing and frightened Borte as her kidnappers slung her on a horse and galloped away with her to an unknown future. It was as though the members of our muted group wanted to tell her, their mother, that everything would be all right, that she and they, her children, would survive it all for eight more centurie.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 4030fc9 | discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production | Jack Weatherford | ||
| eb487d3 | keeping with the laconic Mongol traditions, he warned his sons not to talk too much. Only say what needs to be said. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words: "He can never be happy until his people are happy." He stressed to them the importance of vision, goals, and a plan. "Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others," | Jack Weatherford | ||
| ff11083 | The industrial revolution did not begin in villages such as Kahl, in the workshops of skilled urban craftsmen, or even in the factories of Manchester and Liverpool--it began in the mines and on the plantations of America. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 9a24e32 | At the end of the debate, unable to convert or kill one another, they concluded the way most Mongol celebrations concluded, with everyone simply too drunk to continue. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 1a8b8f9 | Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. What he was about to do to his father was so huge, so colossal, that the consequences were inconceivable - he couldn't imagine a moment occurring after that act. Only blankness. Nothingness. Something like the end of the world. And facing the end of the world, or even just the end of the year, had always given Josh a strangely detached feeling. | Zadie Smith | ||
| f30e2dd | Millat was half sure that he was possibly maybe going to do something or not that would be correct and very silly and fine and un-good. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 96fc8a5 | There's always somebody who wants to be the Big Man, and take everything for themselves, and tell everybody how to think and what to do. When, actually, it's he who is weak. But if the Big Men see that see that are weak they have no choice but to destroy you. That is the real tragedy. | power | Zadie Smith | |
| f11fcfc | Better to believe that sane people were sane and crazy people were crazy and you could put the two types of people on opposite sides of a wall and keep them separate, clean and tidy. Without that, where did the lunatics go? Where had they gone? Were they among us? Were they us? | Claire Messud | ||
| 9d52cf6 | brother, a swarthy barrel-maker whose Breton | Claire Messud | ||
| 2655c03 | I'm a dog and she was a cat: I, slobbery and keen; she, self-contained and ultimately private. | Claire Messud | ||
| 52eaa82 | You start to grow up and you learn from all the stories around you what the world is like, and yous tart to lose freedoms. Not because anybody actually tells you that you've lost them, but because you know you need to take care...Beware darkness, isolation, the outdoors, unlocked windows, men you don't know. And then you realize too that even men you know, or thought you knew, might not be okay. | Claire Messud | ||
| c78d468 | All those years we'd been friends, since forever, we'd used the same words and perhaps meant different things--sometimes slightly different, but other times radically dissimilar; and we'd never known it. | Claire Messud | ||
| e4bd517 | Maybe I made her feel trapped, like she'd outgrown me. But from my side, it was like I knew her too well, I saw her too clearly, when she no longer wanted to be known: she wanted to try out a new role, and didn't want to be reminded that it was fake. | Claire Messud | ||
| b4598ee | There are social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty...and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us in varying degrees, as we finally relinquish childhood's clouds of glory to live, ever after, in our earthly realm. | Claire Messud | ||
| 3727e5c | I imagined that the building carried the sadness of the women who'd been trapped there...I didn't see them--there was no visible mass of ghosts peering out of the hollowed windows--but I couldn't help but feel they marked the territory. | Claire Messud | ||
| ea8e774 | For real?' Cassie's eyes glittered, and it occurred to me that all along she'd expected me to stop us. She'd goaded and teased me, made out like I was a wimp; but she also relied on me to keep us safe. | Claire Messud | ||
| 9278877 | It wouldn't have surprised me to learn that nobody we knew had ever really seen the building: it was the sort of thing you wished you'd done, without actually wishing to do it. | Claire Messud | ||
| 537ab34 | Cassie could be affectionate and scornful at the same time, and I always felt that if I wasn't careful, the scorn might win out. | Claire Messud | ||
| 3a32424 | But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding. | Claire Messud | ||
| 6f91354 | Americans see everything too simply--a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question. | Claire Messud | ||
| 3832a1f | When you're a girl, you never let on that you are proud, or that you know you're better at history, or biology, or French, than the girl who sits beside you and is eighteen months older. Instead you gush about how good she is at putting on nail polish or at talking to boys, and you roll your eyes at the vaunted difficulty of the history/biology/French test and say, 'Oh my God, it's going to be such a disaster! I'm so scared!' and you put yo.. | Claire Messud | ||
| aa303f6 | My mother was annoyed with me throughout their visit--ostensibly because I wasn't being a good enough hostess to the cousins, but really because she found it overwhelming to have so many members of my father's family staying; but they were all so good-natured that she couldn't show it, or even allow that she was mildly irritable. The cousins were there on my father's account, and she wanted very much to be a good enough person not to be ann.. | Claire Messud | ||
| f797e4d | he was playing on the climbing structure by himself--or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it." | Claire Messud | ||
| 3d714ac | I'm forty-two years old--which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one. | Claire Messud | ||
| abeb8a0 | But I did wonder what she did, on those afternoons--not just Fridays either, because on the days I had speech team, somebody else's mother or father dropped her at her door. It seemed like a lot of time to be alone. When I was by myself--and I loved being in my room on my own, reading on my bed or listening to music and staring at the glow-in-the-dark stars that my father had stuck on the ceiling when I was small--I could hear my mother mov.. | Claire Messud | ||
| e9ba65b | Without it being said, I was treated as a kid with a bright future and Cassie, well, she wasn't necessarily not going to have one, but her path would be different from mine. Without anybody saying so outright, I was being told that my path was the more valuable. I got that from my parents, and from Mr. Cartwright when he chose me for speech team, and from my teachers when they patted me on the back and gave me good grades, and from my grand.. | Claire Messud | ||
| ee9d63a | You need to see everything else--everyone else--as expendable, as less than yourself. | Claire Messud | ||
| 1eddcd4 | When you're young - but even now - how do you understand this?' he said when he first spoke of it, walking the night streets. 'You can't understand it. It makes no sense. You can allow yourself to be swallowed by your anger, but this will kill you. And yet how can you look at the panther, how can you look him in the eye, when he won't stay still? When he's nowhere and everywhere, belongs to no one and to everyone? So if you're me, how you d.. | Claire Messud | ||
| 63d194c | MY MOTHER assures me that it happens to everyone, sooner or later, for reasons more or less identifiable; everyone loses a best friend at some point. Not in the "she moved to Tucson" sense, but in the sense that "we grew apart." | Claire Messud | ||
| f114b8c | It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/ daughter/ friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL." | Claire Messud | ||
| 460a752 | It makes sense that if you stand almost daily in the middle of a perfect crescent of shore, with a vista open to eternity, you'll conceive of possibility differently from someone raised in a wooded valley or among the canyons of a big city. Or | Claire Messud |