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| 765fb41 | Chinese economic growth today also has several commonalities with both the Soviet and South Korean experiences | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| a90b031 | One of the most notorious of these was Cornelius Vanderbilt, who famously remarked, "What do I care about the Law? Hain't I got the power?" | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 7198aad | albeit of a particularly vicious and inefficient type. Countries become failed states not because of their geography or their culture, but because of the legacy of extractive institutions, | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 98fa7bb | For every elite benefiting from extraction there is a non-elite who would love to replace him. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| f5e2a4a | Robinson | Mike Lupica | ||
| fca332f | You are what your record says you are. | Mike Lupica | ||
| 3dba201 | It was the worst kind of fear there was in sports, the kind where you didn't give yourself a chance to do something right--even something great--because you were terrified you might do something wrong. | Mike Lupica | ||
| 20f780b | For this one night, the less he cared, the more he made. | Mike Lupica | ||
| d7ab256 | ten-thirty in the morning, being free, | Mike Lupica | ||
| b9af1ab | What had him smiling was that Chris Conlan had called him his best friend. | Mike Lupica | ||
| 829c12a | Nick wasn't sure what he thought about | Mike Lupica | ||
| 3b8e6b0 | The coach who yells at refs? I'm never gonna be that guy. | Mike Lupica | ||
| b068321 | Pedro had two private places he liked best, places where he was completely happy to be alone with a basketball, places where he did his | Mike Lupica | ||
| 8197f37 | i.mpossible. | Mike Lupica | ||
| 51c7387 | Photographs were more than my livelihood. They were part of my life. The way light fell on a surface never failed to tug at my imagination. The way one picture, a single snapshot, could capture the essence of a time and place, a city, a war, a human being, was embedded in my consciousness. One day, one second, I might close the shutter on the perfect photograph. | Robert Goddard | ||
| ce5ae64 | not say and Max had known better than to ask. | Robert Goddard | ||
| fdc4ea7 | his second glass, 'What are your plans?' Deliberately, he had failed to specify which of them he was addressing. 'Well,' Derek replied defensively, 'they're a bit up in the air, actually. As of the end of the month, I shall be joining the ranks of the unemployed.' Colin choked. 'You mean Fithyan & Co. have sacked you?' 'Not exactly. | Robert Goddard | ||
| 510c107 | the layers of pretence. 'If you are right, you may be able to render the Abberley family an inestimable service.' 'I'm right.' 'Your confidence does you credit. But permit me to utter a word of warning. You are in a foreign land of which you know very little. Of its history, I would suspect, even less. Remember your own countrymen's proverbs: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, whereas ignorance is bliss.' 'What Ortiz knew was inescapa.. | Robert Goddard | ||
| b3a24f9 | We have been systematically promoting the worst aspects of American culture and undermining authority of all kinds--making billions along the way, mind you. And I've poured much of that into campaign coffers so politicians would be obligated to appoint the crazy judges that ruined the judicial system and vote for the bills my people proposed. "Still puzzled? Think about it. A nation is held together by its institutions. Destroy them a.. | Robert Goddard | ||
| 789d41a | In his classic commentary on the Bible, Puritan author Matthew Henry wrote these familiar words, which have been adapted and quoted in many marriage ceremonies: "The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protecteed, and near his heart to be beloved"." | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| a9e206f | We've driven wedges between parents and children, between liberals and conservatives, between whites and ethnic groups, and between the religious and non religious. We've all but destroyed feelings of patriotism and blocked all attempts to stop illegal immigration, improve border control, and establish a national language. And with our nationwide campaign of law suits, we've stretched your Constitution almost beyond recognition." Rulo.. | Robert Goddard | ||
| 12f32a5 | Lack of respect for the incompetent central government, along with language, religious, and cultural differences, will loom more and more significantly as time goes on. Eventually, a few of those states will break away from the U.S., and federal government will be powerless to stop it. "The rest of the country, thanks to our efforts, will be so divided, with so many problems, that it will say 'Good riddance,' and the federal governmen.. | Robert Goddard | ||
| df0c031 | to be found?' 'You're suggesting | Robert Goddard | ||
| acc7201 | If Pandora hadn't opened the box, somebody else would have." "There was never any hope it could remain sealed for ever?" "Not really." [...] "You see, Hope was one of the Spites imprisoned in the box." My companion frowned. "Why did Hope have to be shut away?" "Because it always lied. And, true to form, after its release, it deceived mankind into believing the other Spites could be overcome. They couldn't, of course, but thinking they could.. | Robert Goddard | ||
| d129ad5 | El Salmo 19:1 dice: "Los cielos cuentan la gloria de Dios, el firmamento proclama la obra de sus manos"39. A decir verdad, esta escrito a traves de los cielos tan vividamente que cada vez mas cientificos que buscan las estrellas, se estan volviendo cristianos. >>El gran cosmologo Allan Sandage, quien gano la version de astronomia del Premio Nobel, concluyo que Dios es "la explicacion para los milagros de la existencia"40. Sir Fred Hoyle, in.. | Lee Strobel | ||
| 63d0fcd | He laughed at that. 'You're | Robert Goddard | ||
| 4fbcdf8 | widening gap between knowledge and the moral maturity of mankind. And he foresaw disaster if the gap was not narrowed. | Robert Goddard | ||
| 1a93736 | History is the geology of human experience, a study, as it were, of tragedy and comedy laid down in the strata of past lives. In death there are no winners or losers, merely people who once lived but can never live again. What they thought, what they believed, what they hoped, is largely lost. That which remains is history. | Robert Goddard | ||
| e874fa8 | had been calm and relaxed. Then something changed. A man she had never seen before or since came at night. He was thin and softly spoken and smoked an expensive cigar. He had asked how | Robert Goddard | ||
| e0954dd | world won't shed a tear. | Robert Goddard | ||
| 475bb8f | Adam was the representative head and archetype for the whole human race. But remember, although Eve was given a subordinate role, she remained Adam's spiritual and intellectual equal. She was his helper, neither his supervisor nor his slave. By calling her Adam's helper, Scripture stresses the mutuality and the complementary nature of the partnership. Eve was in no way inferior to her husband, but she was to her husband, but she was nonethe.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 2a2160d | Donna Leon, who writes exquisite whodunits set in Venice, | Susan Duncan | ||
| fb05fb9 | You're a throwback." "To what?" Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxically old-fashioned in her life. She didn't even own a television. "The nineteenth century," Jess concluded. "No. Eighteenth. You can be eighteenth. I'll be nineteenth." "I never pictured you as a Victorian." "No, early nineteenth century," said Jess, who had always been a stickler when it came to imaginary games and books. The Blue Fairy, not Tinker Be.. | centurion emily-and-jess sisters what-are-you | Allegra Goodman | |
| 45b460d | There were three wedding cakes, curious and historical but tasty, each labeled with a calligraphed card: "Plumb Cake" with currants, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, salt, citron, orange peel candied, flour, eggs, yeast, wine, cream, raisins. Adapted from Mrs. Simmons, American Cookery, 1796. "Curran-cake" with sugar, eggs, butter, flour, currans, brandy. Adapted from Mrs. McClintock, Receipts for Cookery and Pastry-Work, 1736. "Chocolate Honeycake".. | historical ingredients wedding-cakes | Allegra Goodman | |
| 998ed5a | He could explain away the mechanical, but the inner workings of the soul eluded him | Allegra Goodman | ||
| e54721b | Only the carelessly youthful and naive could have the gall to think that surviving is blessing enough | Allegra Goodman | ||
| 5778435 | I did think about a Ph.D. in computer science, but this is a time in industry where theory and practice are coming together in amazing ways. Yes, there's money, but what really interests me is that private-sector innovation happens faster. You can get more done and on a larger scale and have more impact. With all the start-ups out there, I think this is a time like the Renaissance. Not just one person doing great work, but so many feeding o.. | emily-bach industry renaissance theory | Allegra Goodman | |
| 6e333a3 | When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day," Jess read aloud, "from the summit of the Pacheco Pass, the Central Valley, but little trampled or plowed as yet, was one furred, rich sheet of golden compositae, and the luminous wall of the mountains shone in all its glory. Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light." Golden compositae, George thought. How easy it was.. | jess-and-george mountains muir sierra | Allegra Goodman | |
| d2a87e5 | We can't nourish and support ourselves; we need to be rooted in Christ and drawing upon His spiritual power. To meditate on the Word (v. 2) is one source of spiritual energy, as are prayer and fellowship with God's people. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 227cb46 | To write upon all is an author's sole chanceFor attaining, at last, the least knowledge of any. | Authors | ||
| 93398b4 | On the third day, she smelled the fruit as soon as she came in. She followed the scent to the kitchen, and the peach was radiant, dusky rose and gold, its skin so plush she thought her fingertip might bruise it. This was the day, the very hour to eat- and she had come prepared, but she didn't want Concepcion to see her. She waited until the housekeeper shouldered her leather-handled canvas bag and left. Then Jess unwrapped the organic peach.. | jess-bach peach ripe smell taste | Allegra Goodman | |
| 1bf7c9b | The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and timbre. To the ear, they were twins; to the eye, nothing alike. Emily was tall and slender with her hair cropped short. She wore a pinstriped suit, elegant slacks, tiny, expensive glasses. She was an MBA, not a programmer, and it showed. Magnified by her glasses, her hazel eyes were clever, guarded, and also extremely beautiful. Her features .. | emily-and-jess emily-bach jess-bach sisters | Allegra Goodman | |
| ceff742 | Their mother had white hands, long tapered fingers, and when she kneaded dough, her wedding ring clinked against the bowl. She was always singing softly as she played the piano with her white hands. She accompanied Emily's dance recitals and she could play anything, but Chopin was the one that Gillian loved. She played Chopin every night, and when she turned the pages, she wasn't really looking at the music. She knew the saddest Waltzes by .. | gillian-bach memories mother | Allegra Goodman | |
| a83dba0 | You think there's something materialistic about collecting books, but really collectors are the last romantics. We're the only ones who still love books as objects." "That's the question," said Jess. "How do you love them if you're always selling them?" "I don't sell everything," he said. "You haven't seen my own collection." "What do you have?" "First editions. Yeats, Dickinson- all three volumes; Eliot, Pound, Millay..." He had noticed th.. | books famous-authors jess-and-george | Allegra Goodman |