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| 53744dd | How we doing on the Beatitudes?" "Pardon me?" "The blesseds." "We've got: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness; blessed are the poor in spirit, the pure in heart, the whiners, the meek, the--" "Wait, what are we giving the meek?" "Let's see, uh, here: Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say, 'attaboy.'" "A little weak." "Yeah." "Let's let the meek inherit the earth." "Can't you give the earth to the whiners?" ".. | Christopher Moore | ||
| a324e8f | Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug. | dogs humor | Arthur Phillips | |
| 115ebce | Arthur W. Pink rightly warns: "The fact that a preacher has graduated with honors from some theological center is no proof that he is a man taught of the Holy Spirit. No dependence can be placed on human learning."' The" | Richard D. Phillips | ||
| 461adb0 | Warr be-rong orah Where is a better country Governor Arthur Phillip et al Vocabulary of the language of N.S. Wales in the neighbourhood of Sydney, MS 41645, SOAS, University of London | Keith Vincent Smith | ||
| cc2f514 | John MacArthur writes: "[Andrew] did not seek to be the center of attention. He did not seem to resent those who labored in the limelight. He was evidently pleased to do what he could with the gifts and calling God had bestowed on him, and he allowed the others to do likewise."2" | Richard D. Phillips | ||
| fce5b7a | He might say he had made a mistake in moving to this foreign city--it had seemed like a good idea in California, but now where else could he go? | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 819f54e | Charles Gabor sits with four other westerners, an unlikely group pieced together these past few weeks from parties and family references, friend-of-friend-of-friend happenstance, and (in one case, just now being introduced) sheer, scarcely tolerable intrusiveness--five people who, in normal life back home, would have been satisfied never to have known one another. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| b6210a5 | and when he finally did break, he would take with him his contagious restlessness and dissatisfaction and guilt, his little gestures and phrases and attitudes that stank of their parents and the past, and Scott would relax again and prove to himself that he had settled all that, left if far below him. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| fe5e44f | Are you still awake?' he might ask in the intimate whisper of 3 a.m. lovers who half arise, warm and happy, to find they have been in someone's company during all those lost hours of sleep. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 96108bc | He would tell himself he had momentarily gone mad and forgotten why he existed. Do not forget again and you will never feel so lost again, he would remind himself, confident in his memory's ability to be permanently fixed. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| f8ef019 | John understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two. The term unhappiness referred to the feeling, of taking the wrong things seriously. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 46d247e | There is no "grand scheme of things." That's just a bullshit disguise for cowards. The present has no right to judge the past. Or to act in order to win the future's approval.' (Todd, the marine)" | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 0094b14 | Nadja was off again, in rare and wondrous form, bewitching her audience with another recollection, exquisitely told, satisfying in its construction, lyrical and glamorous, slightly improbably but nowhere near impossible. And John did not doubt its probability. Lives like Nadja's must exist; he had read enough to know this was true. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 946a48a | The most important day of your life, a wonderful moment, but know it as it happens, you feel like God himself is holding you up in his hand. (Imre) | Arthur Phillips | ||
| f263327 | Shakespeare's lines are a nursery of titles for other, better writers: Pale Fire, Exit Ghost, Infinite Jest, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Sound and the Fury, Unnatural Acts, The Quick and the Dead, Against the Polack, To Be or Not to Be, Band of Brothers, Casual Slaughters. At the very least, I have never named one of my books after his stuff. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| ced47e1 | To feel at home. To be at peace. To know one's desires are truly one's own and not inadvertently, unavoidably, just the desires of one's forebears long dead or, worse - worst of all - the manipulations of faceless Habit, Style, Tradition, History. To go somewhere because it would be warmer, to live and just to be. With the right person for the right reason, like this very moment, so that even this place, this historyless little grocery coul.. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| e4218cd | he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 67dc93b | says the brave and tearful mother hustled over from subconscious central casting when recollection fails. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| d3fb762 | the orange circle faded to a coiled spring of dully glowing grey. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 7e6a076 | he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two. The term unhappiness referred to the feeling of taking the wrong things seriously. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 80a28b5 | Boy, how can you think it wise to truck with this culture of death?" Even at ten I knew the correct answer to that cataclysmic catechism: "Right you are, Father. Much better to stick with the life-embracing imagery of a cult that worships a bleeding corpse nailed to bits of wood." ... Egypt was not -- I must repeat for Readers who still do not know it -- a culture of death, for all the mummies and bottled lungs, the jackal-men and cobra-que.. | immortality | Arthur Phillips | |
| f90794f | Arthur W. Pink summarizes the human condition: Whether he articulates it or not the natural man, the world over, is crying "I thirst." Why this consuming desire to acquire wealth? Why this craving for the honors and plaudits of the world? Why this mad rush after pleasure, the turning from one form of it to another with persistent and unwearied diligence? Why this eager search for wisdom-this scientific inquiry, this pursuit of philosophy, t.. | Richard D. Phillips | ||
| b0258bf | In my experience of human behaviour (and I've seen all there is to see, it's fair to say), I've concluded there aren't but five motivations for a man to do anything. They're hardly mysterious, you know: money, hunger, lust, power, survival. That's all there is. You hear in the courtrooms and in the cinema all sorts of fancy-dress explanations why someone becomes Prime Minister or kills his neighbours. But if you listen hard, it's all just t.. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 2daab3c | Unrequited love is not fatal, it's just a temporary digestive disorder that leaves no visible marks, only a newly acquired but permanent inability to ever eat certain specific, unnecessary things again without having terrible digestive distress. Shrimp gives me gas, so I don't eat shrimp. I don't sit up nights crying about shrimp, right? All right then. Have two aspirin and a full glass of water, remember? | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 5915bb8 | Ruthledge himself was the guiding light, the good Samaritan. He had a daughter, Mary, who grew up without a mother. Helping him raise the child was a kindly housekeeper, Ellen. Then there was Ned Holden, abandoned by his mother, who just turned up one night; being about Mary's age, he forged a friendship with the little girl that inevitably, as they grew up, turned to love. They were to marry, but just before the wedding Ned learned that hi.. | John Dunning | ||
| 7cdbf23 | Absolutism and a lack of, or weak, political centralization are two different barriers to the spread of industry. But they are also connected; both are kept in place by fear of creative destruction and because the process of political centralization often creates a tendency toward absolutism. Resistance to political centralization is motivated by reasons similar to resistance to inclusive political institutions: fear of losing political pow.. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 48bce4e | The people who suffer from the extractive economic institutions cannot hope for absolutist rulers to voluntarily change political institutions and redistribute power in society. The only way to change these political institutions is to force the elite to create more pluralistic institutions. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| f0b067e | an unlikely group pieced together these past few weeks from parties and family references, friend-of-friend happenstance, and (in one case, just now being introduced) sheer, scarcely tolerable intrusiveness-five people who, in normal life back home, would have been satisfied never to have known one another. Five young expatriates hunch around an undersized cafe table: a moment of total insignificance, and not without a powerful whiff of cl.. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 88240d9 | Ignorance can explain at best a small part of world inequality. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 21105e8 | Nations fail when they have extractive economics institutions, supported by extractive political institutions that impede and even block economic growth. But this means that the choice of institutions--that is, the politics of institutions--is central to our quest for understanding the reasons for the success and failure of nations. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| f188100 | Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 8181c3c | how to engineer prosperity. These engineering attempts come in two flavors. The first, often advocated by international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, recognizes that poor development is caused by bad economic policies and institutions, and then proposes a list of improvements these international organizations attempt to induce poor countries to adopt. (The Washington consensus makes up one such list.) These improvem.. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 8045768 | A market economy is an abstraction that is meant to capture a situation in which all individuals and firms can freely produce, buy, and sell any products or services that they wish. When these circumstances are not present there is a "market failure." Such failures provide the basis for a theory of world inequality, since the more that market failures go unaddressed, the poorer a country is likely to be. The ignorance hypothesis maintains t.. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| adb8878 | We call such institutions, which have opposite properties to those we call inclusive, extractive economic institutions--extractive because such institutions are designed to extract incomes and wealth from one subset of society to benefit a different subset. E | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 430a89a | There are two important lessons here. First, foreign aid is not a very effective means of dealing with the failure of nations around the world today. Far from it. Countries need inclusive economic and political institutions to break out of the cycle of poverty. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 8634c56 | This synergistic relationship between extractive economic and political institutions introduces a strong feedback loop: political institutions enable the elites controlling political power to choose economic institutions with few constraints or opposing forces. They also enable the elites to structure future political institutions and their evolution. Extractive economic institutions, in turn, enrich the same elites, and their economic weal.. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 2d5ca89 | Inclusive economic institutions, in turn, are forged on foundations laid by inclusive political institutions, which make power broadly distributed in society and constrain its arbitrary exercise. Such political institutions also make it harder for others to usurp power and undermine the foundations of inclusive institutions. Those controlling political power cannot easily use it to set up extractive economic institutions for their own benef.. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 5cee181 | The synergies between extractive economic and political institutions create a vicious circle, where extractive institutions, once in place, tend to persist. Similarly, there is a virtuous circle associated with inclusive economic and political institutions. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 787c164 | And then, exulting in their taper, cry, "Behold the Sun;" and, Indian-like, adore. | Authors | ||
| 93a3a05 | Apt Alliteration's artful aid. | Authors | ||
| cb8af1e | Hua could not repudiate the Cultural Revolution, and this weakened him. He was also a comparative newcomer to the centers of power, and he lacked the web of connections and informal relations that Deng had built up over many years. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 3d44ec7 | Why does the path of institutional change differ across societies? The answer to this question lies in institutional drift. In the same way that the genes of two isolated populations of organisms will drift apart slowly because of random mutations in the so-called process of evolutionary or genetic drift, two otherwise similar societies will also drift apart institutionally--albeit, again, slowly. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 16c3cdf | As early as the late eighteenth century, the great French political philosopher Montesquieu noted the geographic concentration of prosperity and poverty, and proposed an explanation for it. He argued that people in tropical climates tended to be lazy and to lack inquisitiveness. As a consequence, they didn't work hard and were not innovative, and this was the reason why they were poor. Montesquieu also speculated that lazy people tended to .. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 854ae34 | Tropical diseases obviously cause much suffering and high rates of infant mortality in Africa, but they are not the reason Africa is poor. Disease is largely a consequence of poverty and of governments being unable or unwilling to undertake the public health measures necessary to eradicate them. | Daron Acemoğlu |