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Jurassic Park where the freaked-out humans are told to stay still, because if they don’t move, then the T. rex can’t see them. Nonsense—because it could sense depth, a real Rex would have made an easy meal out of those sad, misinformed people.
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Stephen Brusatte (The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World: The Definitive Dinosaur Encyclopedia with Stunning Illustrations, Embark on a Prehistoric Quest!)
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It’s like, when you’re going out to dinner and you don’t really care where you go, but the other person really wants to go to the Chinese buffet. Maybe you don’t love the Chinese buffet, but it’s kind of rude to argue when you don’t even really care.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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when something small happens, something almost imperceptible, and it changes everything.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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I predicted The Financial Crisis of 2008 way back in 2010. In about a month it will be 2024, and you won't believe what I see coming.
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Jarod Kintz (Powdered Saxophone Music)
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Look closely at the present you are constructing; it should look like the future you are dreaming. —ALICE WALKER
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Jada Pinkett Smith (Worthy: An Impactful Biography with a Powerful Message, Empower Yourself Today)
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a new species of dinosaur is currently being found, on average, once a week.
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Stephen Brusatte (The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World: The Definitive Dinosaur Encyclopedia with Stunning Illustrations, Embark on a Prehistoric Quest!)
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the earliest dinosaurs lived in a sauna. The Earth was a whole lot warmer back in the Triassic Period than it is today.
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Stephen Brusatte (The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World: The Definitive Dinosaur Encyclopedia with Stunning Illustrations, Embark on a Prehistoric Quest!)
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They thought he was a dog. If you say "dangerous dog," folk think you're talking about a dog that bites, not someone who hands out deadly weapons at children's parties.
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Frank Cottrell Boyce (Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth)
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It’s life, isn’t it? You make the most of the parts that are right, and do what you can about the parts that aren’t so great.
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Sarah Morgan (The Holiday Cottage: A Heartwarming Christmas Tale of Friendship and Healing from the Bestselling Author of the Book Club Hotel)
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The Anti–J.K. Rowling TJ Klune March 7, 2024
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T.J. Klune (Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2))
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But if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee in 2024, we must do everything we can to defeat him. If Trump is on the ballot, the 2024 presidential election will not just be about inflation, or budget deficits, or national security, or any of the many critical issues we Americans normally face. We will be voting on whether to preserve our republic. As a nation, we can endure damaging policies for a four-year term. But we cannot survive a president willing to terminate our Constitution.
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Liz Cheney (Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning)
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So, is there a reason we’re beating up a brand-new 2024 Ford Mustang?” “We?” “I mean, I haven’t done anything yet, but I’ve got a couple of hockey sticks in my truck if you want to do some real damage?
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Alexandra Moody (Rival Darling (The Darling Devils, #1))
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to Beth>> Your meet-cute would have gone like this, “Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!” / “Sorry, I have a boyfriend.” Also, I feel like I should point out that it was freezing rain. Freezing rain isn’t cute.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
“
What’s a meet-cute? <> It’s the moment in a movie when the romantic leads meet. They never just meet normally. It’s never like, “Harry, meet Sally. Sally, this is Harry.” They always meet in a cute way, like, “Hey, you just got chocolate in my peanut butter!” / “What are you talking about? You just got peanut butter in my chocolate!
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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And booster vaccines are coming. First for people with bad immune systems and people over sixty-five, but I’m hearing at school that by fall it’ll be everyone.’ ‘That sounds right,’ Holly says. ‘And bonus! Trump’s gone.’ Leaving behind a country at war with itself, Holly thinks. And who’s to say he won’t reappear in 2024? She thinks of Arnie’s promise from The Terminator: ‘I’ll be back.
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Stephen King (Holly)
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I’ve tried it a few times, when I’m alone in the car. But I never get past small talk. I feel sort of like I’m invading the baby’s space or like it’s going to wonder, after two months of respectful silence, why I’ve suddenly decided we need to get all personal with each other.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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That was my own fault for never saying no to anyone. I took on more and more. I was always the first in the door and the last home. I told myself it was ambition and that’s partly true, but it was also fear.” She could admit that to herself now. “The drive to succeed came from a place of insecurity.
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Sarah Morgan (The Holiday Cottage: A Heartwarming Christmas Tale of Friendship and Healing from the Bestselling Author of the Book Club Hotel)
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For a few years after we either reach herd immunity or have a widely distributed vaccine, people will still be recovering from the overall clinical, psychological, social, and economic shock of the pandemic and the adjustments it required, perhaps through 2024. I’ll call this the intermediate pandemic period. Then, gradually, things will return to “normal”—albeit in a world with some persistent changes. Around 2024, the post-pandemic period will likely begin.
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Nicholas A. Christakis (Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live)
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AT THE NEXT weekend’s D&D game, Christine pulled Lincoln aside to ask about his situation at work. “Did you stop reading that woman’s e-mail?” Christine asked. “No,” Lincoln said, “but I didn’t walk by her desk this week.” Christine bit her lip and rocked the baby nervously. “I’m not sure that counts as progress.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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Etihad is the current sponsor of Manchester City.
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Chris Carpenter (Manchester City Quiz Book: 2024/25 Season Edition)
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Like a willow I fought and bent with the wind, I had no direction.
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Tasha Marie Johnson (I CHOOSE THE ENDING-3: A POWERFUL MEMOIR IN THE "JOURNEY TO SURVIVAL SERIES")
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Am I going to die?” he asked. “I hope so,” Justin said.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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She liked to talk about things that mattered. She was wholehearted, and fierce.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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Maybe. I don’t know. I don’t think it matters what I think or what I did or didn’t see coming. You had to see it for yourself. You had to see it through.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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sort of person who would set something on fire just to get attention.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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(A name, at last. “Say it loud and there’s music playing. Say it soft and it’s almost like praying.”)
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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a questão do sentido da vida é simples: o sentido da vida é a própria vida concreta. A que vivemos e da qual faz parte também morrer.
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Contardo Calligaris (O sentido da vida: Vencedor do Prêmio Jabuti 2024 (Portuguese Edition))
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Perhaps writing can be beauty and
light and also rage and anger.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (A Man of Two Faces)
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When I go in search of the origins of my broken heart, it is this sense of not being a priority to the two people who gave me life that creates a fracture in my feeling of worth.
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Jada Pinkett Smith (Worthy: An Impactful Biography with a Powerful Message, Empower Yourself Today)
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found god in myself/and i loved her/i loved her fiercely —NTOZAKE SHANGE
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Jada Pinkett Smith (Worthy: An Impactful Biography with a Powerful Message, Empower Yourself Today)
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Many of us are born to parents and families who are already in the mix of trying to survive, withstand, move through traumas of their own. Some
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Jada Pinkett Smith (Worthy: An Impactful Biography with a Powerful Message, Empower Yourself Today)
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You don’t want them mindless. You want them mindful.
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Medusa to her Seeker, 12/24/2024
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If you turned the spotlight onto the good, if you were lucky the dark stuff faded into the background.
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Sarah Morgan (The Holiday Cottage: A Heartwarming Christmas Tale of Friendship and Healing from the Bestselling Author of the Book Club Hotel)
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But I’m family,” Sara said. “You can say anything to me. There is no wrong thing. You don’t have to watch your words or protect yourself.
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Sarah Morgan (The Holiday Cottage: A Heartwarming Christmas Tale of Friendship and Healing from the Bestselling Author of the Book Club Hotel)
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a especialidade do psicoterapeuta é buscar entender como valorizar a vida concreta sem precisar de uma transcendência. Ou seja, sem recorrer a valores externos à vida concreta do paciente.
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Contardo Calligaris (O sentido da vida: Vencedor do Prêmio Jabuti 2024 (Portuguese Edition))
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Jerry had trouble imagining himself in his thirties, much less his seventies. What would 2024 look like? The politics would have to be better than today’s. They couldn’t very well be any worse!
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Harry Turtledove (Three Miles Down)
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measurements show that there were somewhere around 2,500 molecules of carbon dioxide per every million molecules of air in the tropical regions of Pangea back when the Hayden Quarry animals were alive.
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Stephen Brusatte (The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World: The Definitive Dinosaur Encyclopedia with Stunning Illustrations, Embark on a Prehistoric Quest!)
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Then, in May 2024, a New York jury found Trump guilty of all thirty-four criminal counts of falsifying business records. For the first time in U.S. history, a former president had been found guilty of crimes.
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Heather Cox Richardson (Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America)
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areeba
“
Donald Trump is not only the wrong many for the presidency, he is unfit to lead the country. Trump was far worse than Richard Nixon, the provably criminal president. As I have pointed out, Trump governed by fear and rage. And indifference to the public and national interest. Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and is demonstrating the very same character as a presidential candidate in 2024.
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Bob Woodward (War)
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Even though 85 percent of Americans polled in summer 2024 thought abortion should be legal in at least some circumstances, while only 12 percent thought it should be banned entirely, Republicans continued to promise a total ban.
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Heather Cox Richardson (Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America)
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ACT20.24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
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Anonymous (KING JAMES BIBLE - VerseSearch - Red Letter Edition)
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You make it seem like it's so easy. Fighting me off while trying to protect the guy behind you. Gee, I wonder how long you're gonna last."
"You don't seem to understand... that fighting this way can bring out the most of your power.
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Satoru Nii (WIND BREAKER, Vol. 6)
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I’ve met you twice, yes? And both times, you mesmerized me. We’re on our third try, aren’t we? What’s that saying?”
“Three strikes and you’re out?” Ryan said flatly.
Lars huffed indignantly. This stupid language. “Third time’s the charm.
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A.L. Heard
“
The game of death began on November 6, 2022. It was now late October 2024. Almost two years later, there was still no sign of rescue, no messages from outside. All we could do was survive day by day, getting closer to the top, one step at a time.
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Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad)
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- Rá kell jönnöm, hogy te, Fanni, nem csak szép és kívánatos csaj vagy, hanem igencsak okos, az agyad, mint a komputer.
- Ne folytasd a dicséretemet, mert bugyi és zsebkendő nem marad szárazon. Régen nagy dumák hangoztak itt el, sok jó fej jött össze.
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Géza Soós (2024)
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There is a serious danger that Donald Trump will not leave office easily, and there is a real chance of not having a peaceful transition. When he jokes about running again in 2024 and gets a crowd of thousands to chant “Trump 2024,” he’s not joking. Trump never jokes.
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Michael Cohen (Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump)
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What I find helpful is exploring my memories and feelings with pen and paper. If you find some quiet time today, take an opportunity to write three beautiful memories from your childhood, or simply from your past, that helped you to nourish the beautiful YOU that you are.
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Jada Pinkett Smith (Worthy: An Impactful Biography with a Powerful Message, Empower Yourself Today)
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Just a quick example: if the United Kingdom’s gross domestic product (GDP) continues on its current path of an average decline of 0.5 percent annually as it has from 2010 to 2021, the British economy will fall behind many of its European neighbors, including Poland by 2030 and Romania and Hungary by 2040.
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Omid Scobie (Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival: A Gripping Investigative Report with a Personal Touch, Witness the Turmoil of the British Monarchy)
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Is it fair to say that traveling is life itself? It is like seeing endless beauty, pain, desolation, beautiful hearts and minds, and nature through the windows of a fast-moving train where everything is fleeting and impossible to capture."
[From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024]
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Louis Yako
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For the first time since 1860, a major American political party doesn’t believe America is a democracy. No Republican will win a contested primary in 2022 or 2024 who will assert that Biden is a legal president. The effect of this is profound and difficult to predict. But millions of Americans believe the American experiment is ending. Stuart Stevens
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Resmaa Menakem (The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning)
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The best way to pray is to never worry, and think good about everyone. Help everyone, live every moment, be positive and do not worry about anything unnecessarily, do not hurt anyone and love nature, be grateful towards everything, be as happy as possible. If you are doing this then you are also doing a kind of worship. Which is very beautiful.
02-2-2024
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Vishesh Panthi
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It is little wonder that about two-fifths of Republicans (in a poll this year) expressed an openness to political violence, under certain circumstances. People in this group are not being stigmatized. They have the effective, endorsement of a former president and likely GOP presidential nominee in 2024. Michael Gerson in the Washington Post, September 27, 2021
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Resmaa Menakem (The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning)
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You can have it if you want it, if you’re willing to pay for it. Save your money.” “I don’t have any money,” he’d said in the ninth grade. “Be thankful, Lincoln. Money is a cruel thing. It’s the thing that stands between you and the things you want and the people you love.” “How does money come between you and the people you love?” “It’s coming between us right now.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments: Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2025)
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In the year 2024 the most important single thing which the cinema will have helped in a large way to accomplish will be that of eliminating from the face of the civilised world all armed conflict. Pictures will be the most powerful factor in bringing about this condition. With the use of the universal language of moving pictures the true meaning of the brotherhood of man will have been established throughout the earth.
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D.W. Griffith
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The Storm Stranger by Stewart Stafford
Were I to shed forty coats,
Or forty layers of this skin,
I'd stay an intruder in myself,
At a crossroads in a storm.
Stranger in my own country,
Pariah to everything beloved,
Organ rejection by my own body,
A lantern wanderer in limbo.
All foul, cast out by my lamp,
Saving those mistreating me,
Traversing sanity's outer rings,
I turn my collar up and trudge on.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.
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Stewart Stafford
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I am not a magician, but I wish I could make an hourly circle from the world whose people are still servants of it and deadfully at the service of its perishable dependents. I wish then to hang it on the moon in a way that spins consecutively around years, from birth to death of every human, in every fraction of a second. That's how all people, regardless of their differences, are reminded of the smallness of their existence on earth, whether they are born or not.
And, that's how I could make sure that the clock hands can only create good humans henceforth, whether I am a magician or not.
Happy New Year 2024
From a borderless and warless world,
Mostafa Sarabzadeh
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Mostafa Sarabzadeh
“
to begin funding in 2024, India’s National Quantum Mission has allocated a substantial Rs 6000 crores over the next eight years. While this is a significant investment for India, it is the first notable investment into quantum technology in India. In contrast to other nations, India has seen notably much much lower industry investment and investor interest in quantum technology. When it comes to startup funding in this sector, Indian companies have collectively managed to raise less than Rs 50 crores as of December 2023. This sum is minuscule compared to the global quantum computing startup scene, where funding has exceeded this amount by nearly thousand times in the same period.
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L Venkata Subramaniam (Quantum Nation: India's Leap into the Future)
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In summer 2024, it overturned a precedent set in 1984 that required courts to defer to experts in federal agencies when interpreting regulatory laws. Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo gave the right to make those judgments to judges, rather than agency experts. Taking a sledgehammer to the modern administrative state, Loper Bright jump-started the reorganization of the government that Movement Conservatives had always wanted. But rather than reviving small government, the Supreme Court advanced an authoritarian system in which judges, rather than an elected Congress, would determine the law. Immediately, conservative judges began to use junk science to reach their preferred conclusions.
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Heather Cox Richardson (Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America)
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Each has Republicans losing the Electoral College from 2024 to 2036.2 These trends have been evident for over two decades, and as someone who has sat in the room for five presidential campaigns and tried to figure out how to get a Republican candidate over the 270 mark, the math has been increasingly oppressive. The obvious choice for the party was to expand its appeal beyond white voters. That diagnosis was as obvious as telling a patient with lung cancer to quit smoking. But at the same time, Republicans were taking steps to change the electoral math by making it harder for nonwhites to vote. In this, they were continuing a long tradition of efforts by powerful white politicians to remain in power by suppressing votes.
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Stuart Stevens (It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump)
“
Traveling is not only the art of getting lost, but true travelers, in a sense, never return home. If they do return, they never see home the same way they did before leaving. They begin to see the foreignness of home after experiencing being at home in other foreign lands.
Traveling, I have learned, is not all about the touristy and the beautiful places as we see them in tourist guides. Traveling can be frightening in many ways, most important of which is the realization of how much sadness, pain, impoverishment, and despair exist next to, behind, under, over, and above the mountains, the blue lakes, the pristine beaches, the highly rated hotels and restaurants, the well-designed museums and historic and cultural sites, the fancy shops that, in many places, most locals can neither access nor afford. There are places so sad that the fanciest building one can see there is the airport! There are other places where the airports are run down and depressing, but once you step out of the airport, you discover that such places are full of life, meaning, and physical and spiritual nourishment. There are countries, namely the developed countries, where everything looks shiny and perfect, yet as soon as you enter, you encounter so much loneliness, depression, hate, racism, and lifelessness. Things are never as they appear at first glance. Traveling leaves us with more questions than answers – it is so bittersweet."
[From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024]
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Louis Yako
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When I was a kid people used to say one could travel the entire world just by sitting in a library and reading books. Sadly, in the age of billionaire-controlled social media functioning and governing bodies and minds based on carefully engineered algorithms, I don’t believe this is true anymore. The saying should be revised in our times to be ‘one could hate the entire world and see everyone as a villain or an enemy just by browsing through reels and social posts carefully selected to confirm one’s limited knowledge, perspective, and prejudices.’ With that in mind, we need more than ever to master the art of traveling, whether we go near or far. We need to undo the unreasonable, amplified, and exaggerated fear of strangers."
[From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024]
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Louis Yako
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Barbie"
Through my many and long travels
I’ve come across many who read books
On planes, buses, and on trains…
Over the years, three titles caught my attention
of books in the hands of women
who either looked like or tried to look like the Barbie doll…
I don’t remember the exact titles of these books,
But I remember that one of them was something along the lines of
“how keep your husband or preserve your marriage.”
The other was something about “signs that he is cheating on you.”
And the third was something on how to get rid of him and move on!
It was as if these titles summarized the lifecycle of every woman
who lets herself to play the role of a Barbie…
And I often wondered if reading books on
“How to stop playing the Barbie role” in love and life
is not just enough to solve all the problems
the other three books are claiming to address…
[Original poem published in Arabic on May 16, 2024 at ahewar.org]
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Louis Yako
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There is something sad about traveling, because as you discover the enormous amount of life and living that exist in all these places and hidden corners, you are left with two contradictory feelings: first, traveling strongly confirms the idea that one can only see what one is intellectually, spiritually, and physically prepared to see…Everything we encounter depends on our palate in the same way tasting food is that encounter between the food and the palate. Second, there is something excruciatingly painful about leaving a place as soon as you begin to feel at home. There is a deep sorrow in knowing that all the things, places, lakes, wildflowers, animals, and people that we encounter will continue their lives without us. Even more painful is the realization that there are many more lives and much more beauty that we will never get to experience."
[From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024]
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Louis Yako
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Liya peter
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I can’t help sharing a pattern I have observed about tourists: they often come across as not only individuals who weren’t profoundly altered by their travel experiences, but also, in many cases, I find them to be more narrow-minded and sticking to their old beliefs and values, as if what they already know is and remains the only truth in the universe. Many encounters with tourists have proven to me that … travel is a way to confirm their biases and worldviews rather than challenge, expand, disrupt, and turn their worlds upside down. It is like people who only watch TV news channels or read books that confirm their prejudices and beliefs of being from the ‘best, most wonderful, most civilized country in the world,’ or such nonsense.
This perhaps explains why the perspective and worldview of many tourists not only are not expanded after traveling, but their perspective is arguably narrowed further after touring other countries.”
[From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024]
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Louis Yako
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The institutions that American’s founders created to safe guard liberal democratic government cannot survive when half the country does not believe in the core principles that undergrid the American system of government. The presidential election of 2024, therefore, will not be the usual contest between Republicans and Democrats. It is a referendum on whether the liberal democracy born out of the Revolution should continue. Today, tens of millions of Americans have risen in rebellion against that system. They have embraced Donald Trump as their leader because they believe he can deliver them from what they regard as the liberal oppression of American politics and society. If he wins, they will support whatever he does, including violating the Constitution to go after his enemies and political opponents, which he has promised to do. If he loses, they will reject the results and refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of of the federal government, just as the South did in 1860. Either way, the American liberal political and social order will fracture, perhaps irrecoverably.
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Robert Kagan (Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again)
“
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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Alfred Tennyson
“
The year 2020 will mark the end of the U.S. presidency and the executive branch of the government. Let’s just say the American public will finally be fed up by then and leave it at that. The legislative branch will essentially absorb the responsibilities of the executive branch, with a streamlined body of elected representatives, an equal number from each state, forming the new legislature, which will be known simply as the Senate. The “party” system of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, et al., will un-complicate itself into Liberals and Conservatives, who will debate and vote on each proposed bill and law in nationally televised sessions. Requirements for Senate candidates will be stringent and continuously monitored. For example, senators will be prohibited from having any past or present salaried position with any company that has ever had or might ever have a professional or contractual connection to federal, state, or local government, and each senator must submit to random drug and alcohol testing throughout his or her term. The long-term effects of this reorganized government and closely examined body of lawmakers will be a return of legislative accountability and public trust, and state governments will follow suit no later than 2024 by becoming smaller mirror images of the national Senate.
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Sylvia Browne (End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World)
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March 4 Could This Be True of Me? But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself. Acts 20:24 It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realise the call of God. But if once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ, the memory of what God wants will always come like a goad; you will no longer be able to work for Him on the commonsense basis. What do I really count dear? If I have not been gripped by Jesus Christ, I will count service dear, time given to God dear, my life dear unto myself. Paul says he counted his life dear only in order that he might fulfil the ministry he had received; he refused to use his energy for any other thing. Acts 20:24 states Paul’s almost sublime annoyance at being asked to consider himself; he was absolutely indifferent to any consideration other than that of fulfilling the ministry he had received. Practical work may be a competitor against abandonment to God, because practical work is based on this argument—“Remember how useful you are here,” or—“Think how much value you would be in that particular type of work.” That attitude does not put Jesus Christ as the Guide as to where we should go, but our judgement as to where we are of most use. Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
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Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest)
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As such, it is in my humble opinion as an astrologer that Donald Trump will not be impeached as long as Saturn is in Capricorn. However, as Saturn enters his 7th House in Aquarius in December 2020 up until March 2023, he will experience a major obstacle that may compel him to readjust his Goal. As such, it can present itself as possible difficulties if he tries for re-election, forcing him to modify his strategy and rethink his moves. Or, it could have something to do with marriage troubles (the 7th House is concerned with relationships, after all). But it would be a temporary hurdle. All’s well for him as he is still in the steady climb state until 2028, when Saturn enters his 10th House and halts his progress, so he can still get re-elected either in 2020 or 2024 should he retain his Goal of becoming President.
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Cate East (Success Astrology: Your Celestial Map of Success)
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Cats could follow human instructions if they wanted to, but they don’t.
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John Lloyd (2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks)
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Vranyo is Russian for lying even when everyone knows that’s what you’re doing.
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John Lloyd (2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks)
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The Beauty of Single-Mindedness in a Great Cause I love single-mindedness. I love to see an entire life devoted to one great thing. To me it is beautiful when a human soul, instead of flitting from one interest to another, sets a course of life and stays on it till the end. Of course, this is praiseworthy only if the goal is worth a lifetime of focus. In a few places, Paul distills the passion of his life into a sentence. For example: I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. (Acts 20:24)
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John Piper (Why I Love the Apostle Paul: 30 Reasons)
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Jurassic Park’s villainous Velociraptor.
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Stephen Brusatte (The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World: The Definitive Dinosaur Encyclopedia with Stunning Illustrations, Embark on a Prehistoric Quest!)
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Not only won’t she get hooked from a day or two of pacifier use, but as long as your little sucker is also getting her full share of feeds, enjoying a little between-meal soothing from a soothie is no problem at all. In fact, there are benefits to pacifier use—the AAP suggests that parents consider offering one during sleep to protect against SIDS,
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Heidi Murkoff (What to Expect the First Year: (Updated in 2024))
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Estoy jugando con fuego. Solo espero que el incendio que arde en mí los queme.
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Anna K. Franco (2024)
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If you can laugh, you’re less likely to cry.
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Heidi Murkoff (What to Expect the First Year: (Updated in 2024))
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Kids who know they’re cared for and cared about have fewer behavioral problems and stronger relationships. •
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Heidi Murkoff (What to Expect the First Year: (Updated in 2024))
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Manchester City’s moved their training facilities from Carrington to the Etihad Complex - a purpose built £200million facility in the East of the city in December 2014. It is without doubt the best football club training facility in the UK.
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Chris Carpenter (Manchester City Quiz Book: 2024/25 Season Edition)
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The club’s record win in the league is 11-3, a victory over Lincoln City on 23rd March 1895.
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Chris Carpenter (Manchester City Quiz Book: 2024/25 Season Edition)
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Billy Meredith is the oldest player ever to represent the club. He appeared for the club at the ripe old age of 49 years 245 days against Newcastle United in the FA Cup on 29th March 1924.
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Chris Carpenter (Manchester City Quiz Book: 2024/25 Season Edition)
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Frank Swift was killed in the 1958 Munich Air
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Chris Carpenter (Manchester City Quiz Book: 2024/25 Season Edition)
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Jesus Navas scored just after 13 seconds against Spurs on the 24th November 2013.
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Chris Carpenter (Manchester City Quiz Book: 2024/25 Season Edition)
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Joe Hart holds the record for the most clean-sheets for the club, with 18 in the 2012/13 season.
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Chris Carpenter (Manchester City Quiz Book: 2024/25 Season Edition)
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Some lactation specialists suggest aiming your nipple toward your baby’s nose and then directing it down to the lower part of your baby’s upper lip to get him or her to open the mouth very wide. This prevents the lower lip from getting tucked in during nursing.
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Heidi Murkoff (What to Expect the First Year: (Updated in 2024))
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Once the mouth is open wide, move your baby closer. Do not move your breast toward the baby, and don’t push your baby’s head into your breast. And be sure not to stuff your nipple into your baby’s unwilling mouth—let your baby take the initiative. It might take a couple of attempts before your baby opens wide enough to latch on properly.
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Heidi Murkoff (What to Expect the First Year: (Updated in 2024))
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Will Coombe (3 Months to No.1: The 2025 "No-Nonsense" SEO Playbook for Getting Your Website Found on Google)
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Paul was driven to fulfill his ministry. He told the Ephesian elders, “I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, in order that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24). That ministry consisted primarily of the preaching of the word of God, of “declaring … the whole purpose of God” (Acts 20:27). And Paul fulfilled that ministry. Near the end of his life he exclaimed triumphantly, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim. 4:7). His economy of effort, his single-minded devotion, and clear, direct focus on the task God had given him enabled him to carry out his ministry fully. He set himself to do God’s will, nothing more or less, and stayed within that narrow prescription.
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John F. MacArthur Jr. (Colossians and Philemon MacArthur New Testament Commentary (MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series Book 22))
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However, God’s deliverance from Egypt is not out of mere covenant obligation to a place—he is bringing his people to himself!2 Ex. 4:23: “Let my son go that he may serve me.” Ex. 6:6–7: “I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.” Ex. 19:4: “You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.” Ex. 20:24: “In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.
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William R. Osborne (Divine Blessing and the Fullness of Life in the Presence of God: "A Biblical Theology of Divine Blessings" (Short Studies in Biblical Theology))
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No words ring more true for me than when Michelle Obama stated, “Being President doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are. . . .” Please remember what I testified to Congress, the second time: There is a serious danger that Donald Trump will not leave office easily, and there is a real chance of not having a peaceful transition. When he jokes about running again in 2024 and gets a crowd of thousands to chant “Trump 2024,” he’s not joking. Trump never jokes.
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Michael Cohen (Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump)
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Elon Musk, a wealthy businessman and inventor, says he will find a way to have people live on Mars by the year 2024!
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Stephanie Sabol (Where Is Our Solar System? (Where Is?))
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Site Speed I’ll be brutal here. There’s absolutely no excuse why your web pages should be loading in more than 5 seconds. Google users will simply vote with their ‘back’ button. They have no loyalty to your site over the nine other organic options on the first page and they couldn’t give a rat’s ass about your entrepreneurial aspirations. If a web page is slow, they’ll bounce off that website quicker than said rat up a drainpipe. And you remember what we said about RankBrain monitoring your site’s bounce rate? And the ramifications of it being poor? “No Bueno” my friend. As you may be able to tell, I get very worked up about site speed. I think making your website lightning fast is one of the most undervalued marketing tactics you can perform on the Internet; not just for your SEO, but for increasing website conversions. People don’t realise how strict the correlation between site load speed times and customer sales really is. it’s often the case that website owners don’t realise they behave online in exactly the same way their potential customers will. Do you yourself wait for a website to load for ages, or do you just skip to the next option? Precisely.
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Will Coombe (3 Months to No.1: The 2025 "No-Nonsense" SEO Playbook for Getting Your Website Found on Google)
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we do not know how to survive without other people to care for us and to teach us. Therefore, humans must discover ways of effectively interacting both with their environment and with each other. They must learn how to construct the knowledge, including rules of living, that will enable them to survive. This knowledge, the manner in which it is presented (in the family, in the neighborhood, in literature, art, school lessons, etc.), and the meaning it has for us is called culture.
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Kenneth H. Cushner (Human Diversity in Education: 2024 Release)
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Cliffords, were not the only people to realise that there were terrible times ahead.’ ‘What happened to your
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Rosamunde Pilcher (The Shell Seekers: the beloved classic family drama, as read on Radio 4 (April 2024) (Flipback Edition))
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Still unsure if you’ve bundled your little bundle just right? Don’t check his hands for confirmation. A baby’s hands and feet are usually cooler than the rest of his body, because of his immature circulatory system. You’ll get a more accurate reading of his comfort by checking the nape of his neck or his arms or trunk (whichever is easiest to reach under his clothing) with the back of your hand. Too cool? Add a layer. Too warm? Peel one off. If he seems extremely cold to the touch, or dangerously overheated, click here.
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Heidi Murkoff (What to Expect the First Year: (Updated in 2024))
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I’m reminded what John F. Kennedy pointed out, ‘Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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Howard Asher (2024: There Is Nothing You Can Do Without Us Knowing About It)
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For Dads
Helping Ease Her Quease Morning sickness is one pregnancy symptom that definitely doesn’t live up to its name. It’s a 24/7 experience that can send your spouse running to the bathroom morning, noon, and night—and hugging the toilet far more than she’ll be hugging you. So take steps to help her feel better—or at least not worse. Lose the aftershave that she suddenly finds repulsive, and get your onion ring fix out of her sniffing range (thanks to her hormones, her sense of smell is supersized). Fill her gas tank so she doesn’t have to come nose-to-nozzle with the fumes at the pump. Fetch her foods that quell her queasies and don’t provoke another run to the toilet. Good choices include ginger ale, soothing smoothies, and crackers (but ask first—what spells r-e-l-i-e-f for one queasy woman spells v-o-m-i-t for another). Encourage her to eat small meals throughout the day instead of 3 large ones (spreading out the load and keeping her tummy filled may ease her nausea), but don’t chide her for her food choices (now’s not the time to nag her about eating her broccoli). Be there for support when she’s throwing up—hold back her hair, bring her some ice water, rub her back. And remember, no jokes. If you were throwing up for weeks, you wouldn’t find it amusing. Not surprisingly, neither does she.
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Heidi Murkoff (What to Expect When You're Expecting: (Updated in 2024))
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Brad Parscale regarding a Trump 2024 POTUS run:
“I don’t think he sees it as a comeback. He sees it as vengeance.
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Bob Woodward (Peril)
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non è mai tardi per tentare l'ignoto, non è mai tardi per andare più oltre"
(Never too late to go beyond)
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Michael Frank (One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World)