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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d9c7fcf | The genome is littered, one might almost say clogged, with the equivalent of computer viruses, selfish, parasitic stretches of letters which exist for the pure and simple reason that they are good at getting themselves duplicated. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 1e482f5 | It is a remarkable fact that people who have been preparing for an important exam, and have shown the symptoms of stress, are more likely to catch colds and other infections, because one of the effects of Cortisol is to reduce the I50 GENOME activity, number and lifetime of lymphocytes - white blood cells. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 7a106f2 | Sexual relations are driven not by what is good, in evolutionary terms, for men or for women, but for their chromosomes. The ability to seduce a woman was good for Y chromosomes in the past; the ability to resist seduction by a man was good for X chromosomes in the past. | Matt Ridley | ||
| b9470a2 | The phenomena we refer to as intelligence may be a byproduct of intergenomic conflict between genes mediating offense and defense in the context of language', write Rice and Holland. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 024453d | A Californian firm called Morning Star Tomatoes has been experimenting with 'self-management' for two decades. The result is that Morning Star is the largest processor of tomatoes in the world, handling 40 per cent of California's processed tomato crop. | Matt Ridley | ||
| cf02768 | Az, hogy ez a konyv kifejezetten egy faj helyzetevel foglalkozik - az emberi fajeval -, semmit nem jelent e faj fontossagat tekintve. Persze az ember valoban kulonleges. A ket fule kozott a bolygo legbonyolultabb biologiai gepezetet hordozza. A komlexitas azonban nem minden, es nem az evolucio celja. Ezen a bolygon minden faj egyedulallo. A paratlansag itt tulkinalatban levo arucikk. | evolúció-genes gének species | Matt Ridley | |
| 87f5a62 | Depending on whose estimate you choose, and how you correct for inflation, the average person alive in the world today earns in a year between ten and twenty times as much money, in real terms, as the average person earned in 1800. Or rather, he or she can afford ten or twenty times as many goods or services. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 51aaf4d | The ten most violent countries in the world in 2014 - Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and North Korea - are all among the least capitalist. The ten most peaceful - Iceland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, Switzerland, Finland, Canada, Japan, Belgium and Norway - are all firmly capitalist. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 73465b3 | One survey shows that throughout the world and throughout history, from thirteenth-century England to modern Canada, from Kenya to Mexico, men have killed men much more often - on average about ninety-seven | Matt Ridley | ||
| 0b341ff | One survey shows that throughout the world and throughout history, from thirteenth-century England to modern Canada, from Kenya to Mexico, men have killed men much more often - on average about ninety-seven times more often - than women have killed women. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 74bd325 | Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong. The history of human science is not encouraging. Galton's eugenics, Freud's unconscious, Durkheim's sociology, Mead's culture-driven anthropology, Skinner's behaviorism, Piaget's early learning, and Wilson's sociobiology all appear in retrospect to be riddled with errors and false perspectives. No doubt the Red Queen's approach is just another chapter in this marred tale. No doubt its politici.. | science sex-differences | Matt Ridley | |
| 1e362d9 | Letting good evolve, while doing bad, has been the dominant theme of history. That is why the news is full of only bad things being done, but we find when they are over that great good has happened unheralded. Good things are gradual; bad things are sudden. Above all, good things evolve. | Matt Ridley | ||
| de8d7ae | As James Watson has put it, 'We talk about gene therapy as if it can change someone's fate, but you can also change someone's fate if you pay off their credit card. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 60a4dd1 | Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim | creativity freud psychology shakespeare sociology | Matt Ridley | |
| 1aee8d6 | book is a piece of digital information, written in linear, one-dimensional and one-directional form and defined by a code that transliterates a small alphabet of signs into a large lexicon of meanings through the order of their groupings. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 31eb3f0 | If you want to see a truly long sentence, pick up a copy of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, which reportedly contains a 4,391 word sentence. And when you're finished with that one, Jonathan Coe's book The Rotters Club contains a sentence made up of 13,955 words. | Jenny Baranick | ||
| f410cbf |
Os carros sao como as pessoas. Movemo-nos em circulos todos os dias, corremos daqui para ali, passamos a centimetros uns dos outros, mas ha muito pouco contacto real. Tantos desencontros. Tantos < |
Jonathan Coe | ||
| 5b2ab82 | If there was one kind of hat Terry despised above all others, it was the baseball cap. There was nothing wrong with children wearing it, of course, but whenever he saw it on the head of an adult it seemed to symbolize everything that he most hated about America, even more potently than the figure of Mickey Mouse or the latest Coke adverts or the hordes of giant yellow 'M's which were even now beginning to advance across Britain like an unch.. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 0a13e76 | To kolpo einai na kaneis panta skandalode pragmata. Den uparkhei logos na pernas mia skandalode nomothesia kai meta na dineis stous allous to khrono na proetoimastoun skhetika. Prepei na parembaineis amesos kai na ten epikalupteis me kati akoma kheirotero, protou e koine gnome prolabei na katalabei to kako pou te breke. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| b786bfc | Aveva degli occhi azzurri penetranti e intelligenti che avrebbero certamente inchiodato i miei con la forza e la fissita del loro sguardo, se io non li avessi deliberatamente evitati, preferendo soffermarmi sulla carnagione leggermente screziata e sui suoi folti capelli ramati. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| ba2ba8f | Emu vdrug prishlo v golovu, chto on dvizhetsia po zhizni kak vo sne i kogda-nibud' (let etak cherez tridtsat') on prosnetsia lish' zatem, chtoby uvidet': ego vremia na etoi zemle podoshlo k kontsu, a on ne uspel urazumet' i maloi toliki proiskhodiashchego. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| d119340 | Quello che in letteratura la gente chiama ironia, di solito nella vita vera si chiama dolore, incomprensione e disgrazia [...]. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 5498b71 | In effetti a questo stadio della sua esistenza, Maria non era contraria per principio al bacio o allo strofinamento occasionale, o all'occasionale orgasmo. Ma piu il tempo passava e piu Maria cominciava a vedere le brame sessuali della razza umana, incluse le proprie, come il sintomo di una bramosia ben piu grande, di una solitudine terribile, di un'urgenza di dimenticare se stessi che, cosi almeno si diceva in giro, poteva essere attenuata.. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 3efcdd0 | Don't you know what a pussy is, sir?' 'Of course he doesn't. He hasn't even seen Basic Instinct. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 8db66d0 | Noi diciamo sempre "Andiamo a bere qualcosa?" come se l'atto del bere fosse il fine principale dell'appuntamento e la compagnia dell'altro un fattore meramente incidentale, tanto siamo timorosi di ammettere il nostro bisogno del prossimo. [...] Noi diciamo sempre "Vuoi salire a prendere un caffe?" come se fosse meno spaventoso riconoscere di essere dipendenti dalle bevande blandamente stimolanti piuttosto che ammettere di essere del tutto d.. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| a328b4b | For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 4f36c45 | This is the crazed, manic energy of the bull at the end of the fight, fatally wounded but ploughing ahead, driven only by pain and anger and the mindless will to go on living. | the-house-of-sleep | Jonathan Coe | |
| dff39bc | Conoce esa sensacion? Seguro que si: tropezarse con un artista cuyo trabajo te habla tan directamente que es como si los dos compartieran el mismo lenguaje complice, y eso a la vez te reafirmara en lo que siempre has pensado y te dijera algo completamente nuevo. (...) ?No la ha sentido, entonces? | jonathan-coe menudo-reparto what-a-carve-up | Jonathan Coe | |
| 81c4d37 | Benjamin had not dared, yet, to enquire about sales figures; as for the book's critical reception, it was non-existent. No reviews in either the national or local papers, of course, nothing on the various readers' websites and no reader reviews on Amazon - where it had a sales raking of 743,926 (or, if he wanted to cheer himself up, 493 in Bestsellers>Fiction>Literary Fiction>Autobiographical Fiction>Romance>Obsession). | Jonathan Coe | ||
| e66462b | Gil waited, waited just a few more seconds before picking up and in that stretrched instant she felt the promise of revelation curl, evaporate and vanish; watched in despair as it slipped for ever through her mind's grasping fingers. Even before she heard her daughter's first, broken words, she knew that it was too late. The pattern she had been searching for had gone. Worse than that - it had never existed. How could it? What she had been .. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| ea38128 | In an age when politicians are judged first of all on personality, when the public assumes all of them to be deceitful, and when it's easier and much more pleasurable to laugh about a political issue than to think about it, Johnson's apparent self-deprecating honesty and lack of concern for his own dignity were bound to make him a hit. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 264ed29 | Interesting little phrase though, isn't it though "open" marriage? Makes it sound like a drain, or a sewer." | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 30b33de | What did she die of? The same thing that gets everybody in the end: a combination of circumstances, | Jonathan Coe | ||
| e494faf | And so they sit at home, getting fat on the proceedings and here we all are. Our businesses are failing, our jobs disappearing, our countryside choking, our hospitals crumbling, our homes being repossessed, our bodies being poisoned, our minds shutting down, the whole bloody spirit of the country crushed and fighting for breath. I hate the Winshaws, Fiona. Just look what they've done to us. Look what they've done to you. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 1e99776 | because there comes a point where greed and madness can no longer be told apart. This dividing line is very thin, just like a belt of film surrounding the earth's sphere. It's a delicate blue, and this transition from the blue to the black is very gradual and lovely. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 9e65afc | You know she wanted you to vote the other way. It's her future, you know. She's the one who's going to be around the longest. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 37ad64d | but deep down he couldn't tell whether Nigel was joking or not. It was to become an increasingly familiar feeling over the next few years. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 6e2f280 | Politics can make people do terrible things | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 1e7e58f | believe there are infinite ways of telling stories - linear and non-linear, multiple viewpoints and single viewpoints, first and third person, and so forth. An infinity of choice faces you whenever embarking upon a new work. However, I no longer believe, as Johnson believed, for instance, that the novel must be radically reinvented as it progresses or otherwise it will die. If you look at the tradition that he felt himself a part of, it's o.. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| e5f1697 | In quanto a lei, sapeva anche di leggere piu di quanto fosse sano, di riporre troppe aspettative nella lettura, di avere una sorta di ossessione nevrotica per la letteratura e i suoi presunti benefici sul piano morale. | letteratura lettura | Jonathan Coe | |
| 39f8adb | Where are the laughs in massacre, famine and climate change, exactly? What's so funny about the Middle East, North Korea and Afghanistan? Who's going to chuckle when they pick up the London Review of Books and find John Lanchester arguing, convincingly as always, that the banking habits of the British people pose a greater threat to their own security than terrorism? | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 91da58f | Kakoi zhe nam vsem pizdets. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 61dff38 | Prayer: Father God, thank You for giving me the joy of family. Help me to create a place where there is forgiveness and love. My children are truly a reward for me, and they come straight from You. Thank You. Amen. Action: Be bold and ask your children tonight, "Do you feel loved in our home?" Be ready for unexpected answers. Today's Wisdom: Discipline is demanded of the athlete to win a game. Discipline is required for the captain runn.. | Emilie Barnes | ||
| 6b6b5da | Great men [women] never complain about the lack of time. Alexander the Great and John Wesley accomplished everything they did in twenty-four-hour days. FRED SMITH | Emilie Barnes |