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| 7cc05b6 | The sublime moment of cooking, though, is really the moment when nature becomes culture, stuff becomes things. It is the moment when the red onions have been chopped and the bacon has been sliced into lardons and the chestnuts have been peeled, and they are all mijoteing together in the pot, and then--a specific moment--the colors begin to change, and the smells gather together just at the level of your nose. Everything begins to mottle, be.. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| 44ad782 | How could I forget you, Darryl? You called me God. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| 27abf51 | What made me sad just then was the new knowledge that things changed, and there was nothing you could do about it. In a way, that was a Parisian emotion too. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| c202fd4 | With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. | Acquisition | ||
| eac6349 | Again starting with an unusual Y-chromosome, they noticed its occurrence in a related set of surnames that were linked to branches of the Ui Neill, the clan that had held the High Kingship at Tara, and had expelled the Dal Riata to Argyll. The Ui Neill equivalent of Somerled was Niall Noigiallach, better known as Niall of the Nine Hostages, who lived in the second half of the fourth century AD. This was a time when the Romans were beginning.. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| a7aeb37 | published in 2001, concentrates on tracing our ancestry using the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA, which also features heavily in The Nature of the Beast. Other books focus on the paternally inherited Y-chromosome and the evolution of sex (Adam's Curse, 2003), on genealogy and the genetic history of Britain and Ireland (Blood of the Isles, 2006) and America (DNA USA, 2012). | Bryan Sykes | ||
| 68f0ff6 | the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote in AD 98, 'For myself I accept the view that the people of Germany have never been tainted by intermarriage with other peoples and stand out as a nation peculiar, pure and unique of its kind.' Luther himself even managed to concoct a genealogy for the Germans right back to Adam, who for Christians like Luther was the father of the human race. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| cc0c227 | What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon/Teutonic racial superiority over | Bryan Sykes | ||
| daf07a6 | It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely at the feet of men. Yet the association is strong and undeniable | Bryan Sykes | ||
| 14c7809 | Victimspeak is the trigger that permits the unleashing of an emotional and self-righteous response to any perceived slight. Charges of racism and sexism continue to be the nuclear weapons of debate, used to shout down nuanced approaches to complex issues. Victimspeak insists upon moral superiority and moral absolutism and thus tends to put an abrupt end to conversation; the threat of its deployment is usually enough to keep others from even.. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| 30163c4 | Although victimism can trace its lineage to liberalism, it is not itself liberalism. Nor is it updated Christianity. It militates against ideas of equity, fairness, and process; its natural tone is one of assertion of prerogatives, a demand for reparations. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| 4293d54 | V]ictimism is an ideology of the ego. But perhaps ideology is too strong a term; victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable self. It might even be called a habit of mind, but one with substantial institutional support; a reflex so ingrained that its premises are no longer apparent, nor its radical view of human nature even subject to debate. One n.. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| 468b839 | Perhaps the finest--and certainly the most eloquent--discussion of the dilemma of victimism is Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, in which he describes the central tragedy of relations between blacks and whites. While one's victim status confers a sense of moral innocence and entitlement, Steele writes, "it is a formula that binds the victim to his victimization by linking his power to his status as a victim". As potent as victim.. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| 3a8bce8 | A] society that insists on stressing self-expression over self-control generally gets exactly what it deserves. The sulking teenager who insists, "It's not fair!" is not referring to a standard of equity and justice that any ethicist would recognize. He is, instead, giving voice to the vaguely conceived but firmly held conviction that the world in general and his family in particular serve no legitimate function except to supply his immedia.. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| 113077f | The more there is in the world to have, the more people want it. | Acquisition | ||
| fcd305a | Menschmik. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 560c60a | FACTS ABOUT UNICORNS | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| d1f3278 | For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole. | journey new-world | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 8a7141c | and die, die without anyone ever knowing. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 3a9d80d | congregations of owls seemed to be below, along with a hollow that was called a kitchen, from | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| dac8402 | system. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 6ceb515 | One of the vilest secrets of the MacHeaths was that they would purposely maim young pups, hoping to gain a place in the Watch of the Sacred Volcanoes. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| f79300c | Gwynneth had gone to his forge and set | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 4e9ea8e | I'm naked under this dress. Naked as a jaybird," she said pointedly and looked at the matron. "Oh, my! She'll have to be broken!" Mrs. Phillips said and smiled. "Well, dear, we're the rodeo capital of Kansas. Bronco busting is our specialite." She pronounced the word in a foreign sounding way." | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 97dc956 | Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| fb1520a | All for owls and owls for all! | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 5bf8938 | gaddergludder, | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 6a11ad4 | Lupus Star Wolves (the spirits of dead wolves who have traveled to the Cave of Souls) air ceilidh fyre (lightning) chieftains (clan leaders) lords (pack leaders) skreeleens byrrgis leaders captains lieutenants sublieutenants corporals packers gnaw wolves unranked Obeas owls other four-legged animals other birds, except owls plants earth fire water | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| dad06b7 | the end of the world as they knew it. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 46db59b | For those who believe. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| ad9eb42 | Barn Owls were known for their extremely sensitive hearing. They could contract and expand the muscles of their facial disks to funnel the sound source to their unevenly placed earholes. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 3e89508 | Soren had been given the number 82-85. He couldn't remember what his previous number had | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 5b94123 | Nettie turned her eyes toward me. "Bookworm, are you?" The way she said that word absolutely made my skin crawl. She made me sound like I was some spineless, mindless creature living on mold underground. I do love books, but there is nothing wormy about it. I would much prefer to be called a bat than a worm any day of the week. Just that afternoon at the library storytime, Nancy had read a beautiful poem about a baby bat being born. It desc.. | reading | Kathryn Lasky | |
| d139f4b | Cag maglosc," Faolan muttered, and then launched into what sounded to Edme like a string of Old Wolf curse words." | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| aaf97af | I just love the way those old-time authors like Mr. Dickens or George Eliot (who was actually a woman, in case you didn't know) stop smack-dab in the middle of the story and say stuff like, "patient reader," and then give some little side comment." | books reading | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 485ede2 | It was in Durmond that I made the wonderful discovery of interlibrary loan, the greatest invention since the light bulb. [...] All the libraries were linked together, so no matter where I moved, as long as I had a library card I would be part of a web as powerful and beautiful as the one in Charlotte's Web. Just as Charlotte the spider wrote messages in her web that transformed Wilbur the ordinary pig into "some pig," this web would transfo.. | libraries library reading | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 609d729 | Mist | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 5f02aa6 | I couldn't believe it. It wasn't just that he knew about Narnia. I could tell that he knew what I meant by a Narnia cubby. It was all there in his eyes. He knew that I didn't actually think I was Lucy going through a real door to magical lands. He knew that the cubby in the Roadmaster was a sane person's ticket to freedom of thought. | reading | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 50a1951 | To belong did not mean ownership. You were not someone's property. The "be" syllable was about existence: "to be" yourself and "to be" in a special place that no one else could occupy within your family except you. The "long" part was about the heart, a place in the heart where a family met and lived together. They didn't just put up with each other. They longed for each other. To belong was not a state of mind but a state of heart." | family | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 89c7b35 | Be proud. Be proud you are a soldier. Be proud you are a woman. | historical-fiction | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 6e0cc39 | If fairness were the rule, the good would not die young, as Coryn, the king of the Great Tree, had. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 488dbad | The moment she entered she felt wrapped in a fragile golden light like a radiant mist that seemed to settle around her. What was it about the mews? she often wondered. It seemed to transform the simplest things, like stone and wood and the very air one breathed, into something different. When she crossed the threshold, she felt as if she had entered another world. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| cc7f8bc | This tea is for people who really appreciate tea. Ordinary tea is for anyone. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 9bc435b | The pale-skinned boy stood shivering in water up to his waist, thinking these were the most awful words in any language: You will be surprised. The moment when everything is about to change. | Barbara Kingsolver |