“
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort.
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.
”
”
Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
“
I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attention. They can’t. No matter how hard they try parts of their minds are on something else. Missing the last bus—or their chances of making the gal—or their own techniques in kissing—or maybe worry about jobs, or money, or will husband or papa or the neighbors catch on. Mike doesn’t have technique . . . but when Mike kisses you he isn’t doing anything else. You’re his whole universe . . . and the moment is eternal because he doesn’t have any plans and isn’t going anywhere. Just kissing you.
”
”
Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)
“
I love you, hugs & kisses, smoochies galore, licks, nibbles & assorted gropages!! -Aisling said to Drake
”
”
Katie MacAlister (Holy Smokes (Aisling Grey, #4))
“
I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions
”
”
Anne Rice (The Mummy (Ramses the Damned #1))
“
There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.
”
”
Frank McCourt (Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3))
“
The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink --
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole-
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks-
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something to read.
And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.
”
”
Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1))
“
You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. I would compare it to a woman in the back of a lecture hall or theater whom no one notices until she slips out.Then only those near the door themselves, like Grandma Lynn, notice; to the rest it is like an unexplained breeze in a closed room.
Grandma Lynn died several years later, but I have yet to see her here. I imagine her tying it on in her heaven, drinking mint juleps with Tennessee Williams and Dean Martin. She'll be here in her own sweet time, I'm sure.
If I'm to be honest with you, I still sneak away to watch my family sometimes. I can't help it, and sometimes they still think of me. They can't help it....
It was a suprise to everyone when Lindsey found out she was pregnant...My father dreamed that one day he might teach another child to love ships in bottles. He knew there would be both sadness and joy in it; that it would always hold an echo of me.
I would like to tell you that it is beautiful here, that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe. But this heaven is not about safety just as, in its graciousness, it isn't about gritty reality. We have fun.
We do things that leave humans stumped and grateful, like Buckley's garden coming up one year, all of its crazy jumble of plants blooming all at once. I did that for my mother who, having stayed, found herself facing the yard again. Marvel was what she did at all the flowers and herbs and budding weeds. Marveling was what she mostly did after she came back- at the twists life took.
And my parents gave my leftover possessions to the Goodwill, along with Grandma Lynn's things.
They kept sharing when they felt me. Being together, thinking and talking about the dead, became a perfectly normal part of their life. And I listened to my brother, Buckley, as he beat the drums.
Ray became Dr. Singh... And he had more and more moments that he chose not to disbelieve. Even if surrounding him were the serious surgeons and scientists who ruled over a world of black and white, he maintained this possibility: that the ushering strangers that sometimes appeared to the dying were not the results of strokes, that he had called Ruth by my name, and that he had, indeed, made love to me.
If he ever doubted, he called Ruth. Ruth, who graduated from a closet to a closet-sized studio on the Lower East Side. Ruth, who was still trying to find a way to write down whom she saw and what she had experienced. Ruth, who wanted everyone to believe what she knew: that the dead truly talk to us, that in the air between the living, spirits bob and weave and laugh with us. They are the oxygen we breathe.
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort.
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish. This wide wide Heaven is about flathead nails and the soft down of new leaves, wide roller coaster rides and escaped marbles that fall then hang then take you somewhere you could never have imagined in your small-heaven dreams.
”
”
Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
“
Orgasms galore and sore vagina here I come.
”
”
Jessica Florence (The Final KO (Final Love #1))
“
Busy days galore...thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances.
”
”
Al Cash
“
He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.
”
”
David Finkel (The Good Soldiers)
“
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.
”
”
Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
“
As adults, these kids are mostly what you’d expect. Low IQ and poor cognitive skills. Problems with forming attachments, often bordering on autistic. Anxiety and depression galore. The longer the institutionalization, the worse the prognosis.
”
”
Robert M. Sapolsky (Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst)
“
Snow harder! Snow more!
Snow blizzards galore!
I can’t get enough
Of the fluffy white stuff!
Snow! Snow! Snow!
Snow a ton! Snow a heap!
Snow ten feet deep!
I wouldn’t cry
If it snowed til July.
Snow! Snow! Snow!
”
”
Paul F. Kortepeter (The Holly Pond Hill Christmas Treasury)
“
The Lesson You've Got
to learn is the someday you'll someday
stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears
shed, ready to poke your bovine head
in the yoke they've shaped.
Everyone learns this. Born, everyone
breathes, pays tax, plants dead
and hurts galore. There's grief enough
for each. My mother
learned by moving man to man,
outlived them all. The parched earth's
bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched
the instants I trod it.
Other than myself, of course.
I've made a study of bearing
and forbearance. Everyone does,
it turns out, and note
those faces passing by: Not one's a god.
”
”
Mary Karr (Sinners Welcome)
“
And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and that we therefore communicate best when we exploit examples, analogies, and metaphors galore, when we avoid abstract generalities, when we use very down-to-earth, concrete, and simple language, and when we talk directly about our own experience.
”
”
Douglas R. Hofstadter
“
He wasn’t a religious man but a vision of what Paradise might be came to him, a windowed room afloat on an endless sea, walls packed floor to ceiling with all the books ever written or dreamed of. It was nearly enough to make giving up the world bearable.
”
”
Michael Crummey (Galore)
“
From what I have seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.
”
”
Michael Crummey (Galore)
“
The strings all soar,
The reeds implore,
The brasses roar with notes galore.
It's music that we all adore
It's what we go to concerts for.
”
”
Lloyd Moss
“
Ohhhhh, he’s a yes-please with a side of fuck-me-now and a tall drink of orgasms-galore,” Anna says in an awed whisper.
”
”
Kristy Cunning (Gypsy Blood (All The Pretty Monsters, #1))
“
I wanted you to have an image of this place in your mind because you need to know that it exists. People think a place like this is perfect. Living a simple life close to the land and all that. It isn't. There are mean people and alcoholics and medical bills to pay and depressed people galore. But some of us feel okay here, you know, despite all that.
”
”
Francisco X. Stork (Marcelo in the Real World)
“
I incline my agreement with Toirdealbhach,' said Gareth. 'After all, what is the good of killing poor kerns who do not know anything? It would be much better for the people who are angry to fight each other themselves, knight against knight.'
'But you could not have any wars at all, like that,' exclaimed Gaheris.
'It would be absurd,' said Gawaine. 'You must have people, galore of people, in a war.'
'Otherwise you could not kill them,' explained Agravaine.
”
”
T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
“
And please don't sink into this woeful nonsense about not having time to read...The real culprit here is almost never your schedule. It is your boredom--your boredom with the books you think you are supposed to read. Find a book you want, a book that gives you real trembling excitement, a book that is hot in your hands, and you'll have time galore.
”
”
Stephen Koch
“
Being the reader of a dark fairy tale is much like being the hero of one. Our lives are filled with pain, boredom, and fear. We want to venture into the dark wood, to see the oddities and the beauties it holds, and to test ourselves against them. So we pick up a book of fairy tales. The real ones. THe weird ones. The dark ones. We see oddities and beauties galore. We test our courage and our understanding. Finally, we put the book down and return to our lives. And hopefully, just like the hero of the fairy tale, we return stronger, richer, and wiser. In difficult times - of recession and violence and political bitterness - we long for a dark forest to which we can escape; and from which we can return, better than we were before.
”
”
Adam Gidwitz (The Grimm Conclusion (A Tale Dark & Grimm, #3))
“
What do you think? This ought to be the right kind of place for tough guy like you. Garbage cans. Rats galore. Plenty of cat-bums to gang around with. So scram,’ she said, dropping him…
'...I told you. We just met by the river one day: that’s all. Independents, both of us. We never made each other any promises. We never -’ she said, and her voice collapsed, a tic, an invalid whiteness seized her face. The car had paused for a traffic light. Then she had the door open, she was running down the street; and I ran after her.
...she shuddered, she had to grip my arm to stand up: ‘Oh, Jesus God. We did belong to each other. He was mine.’ Then I made her a promise, I said I’d come back and find her cat. ‘I’ll take care of him, too. I promise.’
She smiled: that cheerless new pinch of a smile. ‘But what about me?’ she said, whispered, and shivered again. ‘I’m very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what’s yours until you’re thrown it away. The mean reds, they’re nothing...
”
”
Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories)
“
When both men had their shirt off, as they did right now, it was like living in an Abercrombie & Fitch ad- a six-pack celebration, complete with triceps and biceps galore.
No doubt about it, Dolphina loved her new job.
”
”
Suzanne Brockmann (All Through the Night (Troubleshooters, #12))
“
It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.
The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it. It is stripped off--the paper--in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life.
One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide--plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.
No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long.
”
”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories)
“
If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel … In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.
”
”
Michael Pollan (Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation)
“
I feel naturally florid when I look up again. I look like a flourish. I look the way the word galore feels. I feel uncultivated beautiful, like pure, organic allure.
”
”
Sarah Elizabeth (Delinquents (Dusty, #2))
“
Reading should be like dining at a buffet, you have a lot to choose from: fiction, poetry, graphic novels, and more. There are books galore! Eat them all up!
”
”
Lisa Fipps
“
Sunflowers, Not Facing the Sun (A Poem)
I stand tall
As gracious as one could be
Blooming to my best
As slender as it touches my being
Everyone else is facing the sun
Bending towards its unfathomable galore
They and I are both undoubtedly
Grown on the benevolence of life’s essence
The brighter side mercilessly feeding desires unbound
By daunting the “courage to know” with each spin
Though, I am not able to face the sun the way they do
Yet, I learn from the knowledge bred within me
Beyond achievement markers, but an adverse ability
An opportunity to exercise my special self
From the cherubic attire of my blessed soul
To the unfathomable mystery the drape of this world hides
That I, by not facing the sun
Hunt the gems in the milieu of the human existence
”
”
Annie Ali
“
He was ragged around the edges, a walking open wound with psych issues galore. But he still had a beating heart. Thoughts, feelings, fears. He was still human, and someone should prove it to him.
”
”
Tonya Burrows
“
We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers - but where are the great lovers? After a moment's reflection one is back to Abelard and Heloise, or Anthony and Cleopatra, or the story of the Taj Mahal. So much of it is fictive, expanded and glorified by the poverty-stricken lovers whose prayers are answered only by myth and legend.
”
”
Henry Miller
“
Let me write about an Icelandic road trip; a running man; backflashes galore; and slowly disclose what it is he’s running from. Bring him to Ásbyrgi; mention how the ravine was formed by a slammed-down hoof of Odin’s horse. Mention how it’s the Parliament of the Hidden Folk. Have him stare at the rock faces until the rock’s faces stare back. Breathe deep the resinous tang of the spruces. Let him meet a ghost from his past. Hear the bird, luring me in, ever deeper ever tighter circles. Where are you? There. On the toadstool-frilled tree stump.
”
”
David Mitchell (The Bone Clocks)
“
The most powerful anti-Christian movement is the one that takes over and "radicalizes" the concern for victims in order to paganize it. The powers and principalities want to be “revolutionary” now, and they reproach Christianity for not defending victims with enough ardor. In Christian history they see nothing but persecutions, acts of oppression, inquisitions.
This other totalitarianism presents itself as the liberator of humanity. In trying to usurp the place of Christ, the powers imitate him in the way a mimetic rival imitates his model in order to defeat him. They denounce the Christian concern for victims as hypocritical and a pale imitation of the authentic crusade against oppression and persecution for which they would carry the banner themselves. In the symbolic language of the New Testament, we would say that in our world Satan, trying to make a new start and gain new triumphs, borrows the language of victims.
...
The Antichrist boasts of bringing to human beings the peace and tolerance that Christianity promised but has failed to deliver. Actually, what the radicalization of contemporary victimology produces is a return to all sorts of pagan practices: abortion, euthanasia, sexual undifferentiation, Roman circus games galore but without real victims, etc.
Neo-paganism would like to turn the Ten Commandments and all of Judeo-Christian morality into some alleged intolerable violence, and indeed its primary objective is their complete abolition. Faithful observance of the moral law is perceived as complicity with the forces of persecution that are essentially religious...
Neo-paganism locates happiness in the unlimited satisfaction of desires, which means the suppression of all prohibitions. This idea acquires a semblance of credibility in the limited domain of consumer goods, whose prodigious multiplication, thanks to technological progress, weakens certain mimetic rivalries. The weakening of mimetic rivalries confers an appearance of plausibility, but only that, on the stance that turns the moral law into an instrument of repression and persecution.
”
”
René Girard (I See Satan Fall Like Lightning)
“
Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do; the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role.
”
”
Israelmore Ayivor
“
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go hold someone’s hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish. This wide wide heaven is about flat head nails and the soft down of new leaves, wild roller coaster rides and escaped marbles that fall, then hang, then take you somewhere you could never imagined in your small-heaven dreams.
”
”
Alice Sebold
“
For a minister’s daughter,” he said, “you hit hard ... and quite often, below the belt too.
”
”
Essie Summers (Bachelors Galore)
“
Destiny is a mobile thing — that every choice you make, along with every choice made around you, can cause it to spin this way and that, offering destinies galore.
”
”
Lynda Rutledge (West With Giraffes)
“
The world is filled with colours galore, each day is a colourful festivity.
”
”
Debasish Mishra
“
listen thoughtfully
sounds of laughter
gaiety and melancholy galore
”
”
Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
“
Reading should be like
dining at a buffet.
You have a lot to choose from:
fiction, poetry, graphic novels, and more.
There are books galore!
Eat them all up!"
-Mrs. Boardman
”
”
Lisa Fipps (Starfish)
“
I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning. Do you think the hereafter could be like that?
”
”
Anne Rice (The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned (Ramses the Damned, #1))
“
And he saw plots and spies everywhere throughout his waking hours, and had men root them out, and the thing about rooting out plots and spies everywhere is that, even if there are no real plots to begin with, there are plots and spies galore very soon.
”
”
Terry Pratchett (Night Watch (Discworld, #29))
“
But Bachmann’s efforts to strut her IQ were undermined by gaffes galore. In New Hampshire, she hailed the state for being “where the shot was heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.” (That blast emanated from Massachusetts.) On June 27, the day of her official announcement in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, Bachmann proclaimed in a Fox News interview that “John Wayne was from Waterloo.” (Wayne was in fact from Winterset, Iowa; serial killer John Wayne Gacy was from Waterloo.) From now on, her son Lucas razzed his mother, “you can’t say George Washington was the first president unless we Google that shit first.
”
”
Mark Halperin (Double Down: Game Change 2012)
“
Twas the night before Christmas, and all
through the base
Only sentries were stirring--they guarded the place.
At the foot of each bunk sat a helmet and boot
For the Santa of Soldiers to fill up with loot.
The soldiers were sleeping and snoring away
As they dreamed of “back home” on
good Christmas Day.
One snoozed with his rifle--he seemed so content.
I slept with the letters my family had sent.
When outside the tent there arose such a clatter.
I sprang from my rack to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash.
Poked out my head, and yelled, “What was that crash?”
When what to my thrill and relief should appear,
But one of our Blackhawks to give the all clear.
More rattles and rumbles! I heard a deep whine!
Then up drove eight Humvees, a jeep close behind…
Each vehicle painted a bright Christmas green.
With more lights and gold tinsel than I’d ever seen.
The convoy commander leaped down and he paused.
I knew then and there it was Sergeant McClaus!
More rapid than rockets, his drivers they came
When he whistled, and shouted, and called
them by name:
“Now, Cohen! Mendoza! Woslowski! McCord!
Now, Li! Watts! Donetti! And Specialist Ford!”
“Go fill up my sea bags with gifts large and small!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away, all!”
In the blink of an eye, to their trucks the troops darted.
As I drew in my head and was turning around,
Through the tent flap the sergeant came in with a bound.
He was dressed all in camo and looked quite a sight
With a Santa had added for this special night.
His eyes--sharp as lasers! He stood six feet six.
His nose was quite crooked, his jaw hard as bricks!
A stub of cigar he held clamped in his teeth.
And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath.
A young driver walked in with a seabag in tow.
McClaus took the bag, told the driver to go.
Then the sarge went to work. And his mission today?
Bring Christmas from home to the troops far away!
Tasty gifts from old friends in the helmets he laid.
There were candies, and cookies, and cakes, all homemade.
Many parents sent phone cards so soldiers could hear
Treasured voices and laughter of those they held dear.
Loving husbands and wives had mailed photos galore
Of weddings and birthdays and first steps and more.
And for each soldier’s boot, like a warm, happy hug,
There was art from the children at home sweet and snug.
As he finished the job--did I see a twinkle?
Was that a small smile or instead just a wrinkle?
To the top of his brow he raised up his hand
And gave a salute that made me feel grand.
I gasped in surprise when, his face all aglow,
He gave a huge grin and a big HO! HO! HO!
HO! HO! HO! from the barracks and then from the base.
HO! HO! HO! as the convoy sped up into space.
As the camp radar lost him, I heard this faint call:
“HAPPY CHRISTMAS, BRAVE SOLDIERS!
MAY PEACE COME TO ALL!
”
”
Trish Holland (The Soldiers' Night Before Christmas (Big Little Golden Book))
“
Take up the White Man’s burden,
And teach the Philippines
What interest and taxes are
And what a mortgage means.
Give them electrocution chairs,
And prisons, too, galore,
And if they seem inclined to kick,
Then spill their heathen gore.
They need our labor question, too,
And politics and fraud—
We’ve made a pretty mess at home,
Let’s make a mess abroad.
”
”
Ernest Howard Crosby
“
He was struck by the sensation she’d made it happen in some way, that his life was simply a story the old woman was making up in her head.
”
”
Michael Crummey (Galore)
“
Levi’s motives were never quite as obvious. There was an Old Testament ruthlessness about him, Shambler thought, something inscrutably tribal at the root.
”
”
Michael Crummey (Galore)
“
Mary Tryphena said, It's the only thing the world gives us, you know. The right to say yes or no to love.
”
”
Michael Crummey (Galore)
“
The human hand is another. In conjunction with our brains, our hands too evolved partly in response to technology, specifically the benefits of creating and utilising hunting tools, needles and cooking gear.
”
”
Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
“
Hey, aren’t you that girl from the web?” the new one asked, bending to suck my earing between his teeth.
I pulled my head away. “You got the wrong girl.”
Mr. Hawaii pulled back to take a better look at me. “No, I think you might be.” To my total bewilderment, he spun me around.
“Hey! What are you—?”
“Hey, it is you!” he yelled excitedly, drawing the attention of the crowd. “Hey, everyone, it’s Cheeky Galore!
”
”
Brandi Salazar (Addicted to Magic (Addicted, #1))
“
I SEEK SOLACE IN THE CRIMSON SUNRISE, That splashes the east with beauty; I am captivated by the azure skies, Which follow with an air of serenity! I watch the color of the seas That paints the canvas of my heart; I brush my thoughts with the elegant breeze That translates my ideas to art! The dainty garden of beauteous flowers - Red, yellow, lilac and white - Toss and frolic in breezy hours Spreading the waves of lucid delight. The hills covered with foliage green, And the faded ones, blue and grey, Enthrall me as my eyes glean Their glimpses while I move away. Each speck of dust, each grain of rice, And the farms reflect life and mirth; Colors of nature, at ease, entice, Bringing the sweet scent of earth. I chase the mesmerizing butterflies Laden with hues of heaven, Solitude becomes a joyous exercise. When by beauty, I am madly driven! The world is filled with colors galore, Each day is a colorful festivity; Every moment you amass more and more, There is no end to beauty!
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Saravanakumar Murugan (Shades of Life)
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The last words spoken from the moon were from Eugene Cernan, Commander of the Apollo 17 Mission on 11 December 1972. "As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.
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Samuel Walz (Useless Facts Galore - Yes, It’s A Weird And Crazy World!: Weird facts, funny laws and tons of useless trivia about all kinds of different subjects that you never heard about before... until now.)
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She's selling CDs on the corner,
fifty cents to any stoner,
any homeboy with a boner.
Sleet and worse - the weather's awful.
Will she live? It's very doubtful.
Life out here is never healthful.
She puts a CD in her Sony.
It's the about the pony
and a pie with pepperoni
and a mom with warm, clean hands
who doesn't bring home guys from bands
or make some sickening demands.
The cold wind bites like icy snakes.
She tries to move but merely shakes.
Some thief leans down and simply takes.
Her next CD's called Land Of Food.
No one there can be tattooed
or mumble things that might be crude
and everything to eat is free,
there's always a big Christmas tree
and crystal bowls of potpourri.
She's weak but still she play one more:
She's on a beach with friends galore.
They scamper down the sandy shore
to watch the towering waves cascade
and marvel at the cute mermaids
who call to her and serenade.
She can't resist. the water's fine.
The rocks are like a kind of shrine.
The foam goes down like scarlet wine.
One cop stands up and says, "She's gone."
The other shakes his head and yawns.
It's barely 10:00, and life goes on.
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Ron Koertge (Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses)
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Books. More books than I had ever seen in my life. I gasped and crawled to my knees. I couldn’t breathe. Books galore. Music books, philosophy books. Math books. Geometry. Opera scores, logic. I sobbed and cradled the books. I hugged them to my naked chest and I cried. I smelled them and touched their spines. I remember how violently my fingers shook. I buried my nose in their pages and wept. Never had I ever held so many books in my life. And they were mine. All my very own. The orgasm still riddled my body. It had barely begun to fade. One orgasm ended, but the euphoria was just beginning.
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Angela B. Chrysler (Broken)
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THE ENGLISHMAN’S VERY SHY (FOX-TROT) (Bloat): The Englishman’s very shy, He’s none of your Ca-sa-no-va, At bowling the ladies o-ver, A-mericans lead the pack— (Tantivy): —You see, your Englishman tends to lack That recklessness transatlantic, That women find so romantic Though frankly I can’t see why . . . (Bloat): The polygamous Yank with his girls galore Gives your Brit-ish rake or carouser fits, (Tantivy): Though he’s secretly held in re-ve-rent awe As a sort of e-rot-ic Clausewitz. . . . (Together): If only one could al-ly A-merican bedroom know-how With British good looks, then oh how Those lovelies would swoon and sigh, Though you and I know the Englishman’s very shy.
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Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)
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THE ENGLISHMAN’S VERY SHY (FOX-TROT) (Bloat): The Englishman’s very shy, He’s none of your Ca-sa-no-va, At bowling the ladies o-ver, A-mericans lead the pack— (Tantivy): —You see, your Englishman tends to lack That recklessness transatlantic, That women find so romantic Though frankly I can’t see why . . . (Bloat): The polygamous Yank with his girls galore Gives your Brit-ish rake or carouser fits, (Tantivy): Though he’s secretly held in re-ve-rent awe As a sort of e-rot-ic Clausewitz. . . . (Together): If only one could al-ly A-merican bedroom know-how With British good looks, then oh how Those lovelies would swoon and sigh, Though you and I know the Englishman’s very shy.
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Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)
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There’s some chitchat in the car, but most of it goes from his father to the jittery dashboard. “Easy there, honeybug… no big deal .. I’m right here…” The rest is just a ride to no place in particular, wasting gas galore. Even in bed that night Zinkoff can still feel the shake and shimmy of the old rattletrap, and coming through loud and clear is a message that was never said. He knows that he could lose a thousand races and his father will never give up on him. He knows that if he ever springs a leak or throws a gasket, his dad will be there with duct tape and chewing gum t0 patch him up, that no matter how much he rattles and knocks, he’ll always be a honeybug to his dad, never a clunker.” (p. 108)
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Jerry Spinelli (Loser)
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Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego 's in bloom;
Sometime when you take it for granted,
You're the best qualified in the room:
Sometime when you feel that your going,
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow these simple instructions,
And see how they humble your soul.
Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in it up to the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that's remaining,
Is a measure of how much you'll be missed.
You can splash all you wish when you enter,
You may stir up the water galore,
But stop, and you'll find that in no time,
It looks quite the same as before.
The moral of this quaint example,
Is to do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember,
There's no indispensable man.
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Saxon White Kessinger
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He worked at a feverish pace. He experimented with all manner of pies: tortoises, eel, chicken, frog, mushroom, artichoke, apricot, cherry, and his favorite of all, a luscious strawberry pie. He made omelets, stuffed eggs, and poached eggs with rosemary over toast. There were soups galore: fennel, tortellini, Hungarian milk, millet, kohlrabi, pea, and his famous Venetian turnip soup, which this time he made with apples instead. He molded jelly into the shapes of the cardinali crests, colored with wine, carrot, and saffron. He delighted most in the moments when he worked with his favorite knife, carving and slicing roasted cockerel, peacock, capons, turtledoves, ortolans, blackbirds, partridges, pheasants, and wood grouse. Every slice of the knife gave him greater confidence and belief in his power to make the world his.
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Crystal King (The Chef's Secret)
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I can't believe this crap. Jolly ranchers? Gummy worms?" Katy rifled through the pile of candy she'd dumped onto Steph's floor. "Where's the chocolate? Where's the candy corn?"
"I like Jolly Rangers," Steph said, helping herself to Katy's rejects, her boobs in danger of breaking loose from her Renaissance dress.
Gil watched, fascinated. "Remind me who you are again?"
"Um, Juliet? From Romeo and Juliet?" She popped a candy into her mouth. "Shakespeare?"
"Did they really dress like that back then?" Gil asked. "It seems kind of like something that might get you burned at the stake."
"I'm pre-Puritan, baby."
Ethan unwrapped a peanut butter cup from his own candy pile. "You've obviously never been to a Renaissance fair, dude. I went to one in New York with my cousin. Boobs galore."
"We gotta get one of those in Utah," Gil said.
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Sara Zarr (Sweethearts)
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Although his intimacy with Stephen Maturin did not allow him to ask questions that might be judged impertinent, it was of such a rare kind that he could ask for money without the least hesitation. "Have you any money, Stephen?" he said, the Marine having vanished in the trees. "How I hope you have. I shall have to borrow the Marine's guinea from you, and a great deal more besides, if his message is what I dearly trust. My half-pay is not due until the month after next, and we are living on credit."
"Money, is it?" said Stephen, who had been thinking about lemurs. There were lemurs in Madagascar: might there not be lemurs on Reunion? Lemurs concealed among the forests and the mountains of the interior? "Money? Oh, yes, I have money galore." He felt in his pockets. "The question is, where is it?" He felt again, patted his bosom, and brought out a couple of greasy two pound notes on a country bank. "That is not it," he muttered, going through his pockets again. "Yet I was sure--was it in my other coat? did I perhaps leave it in London?--you are growing old, Maturin--ah, you dog, there you are!" he cried triumphantly, returning to the first pocket and drawing forth a neat roll, tied with tape. "There. I had confused it with my lancet-case. It was Mrs Broad of the Grapes that did it up, finding it in a Bank of England wrapper that I had--that I had neglected. A most ingenious way of carrying money, calculated to deceive the pick-pocket. I hope it will suffice."
"How much is it?" asked Jack.
"Sixty or seventy pound, I dare say."
"But, Stephen, the top note is a fifty, and so is the next. I do not believe you ever counted them."
"Well, never mind, never mind," said Stephen testily. "I meant a hundred and sixty. Indeed, I said as much, only you did not attend.
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Patrick O'Brian (The Mauritius Command: 4 (Aubrey-Maturin))
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They never lost their way or seemed even momentarily uncertain of their location. They traveled narrow paths cut through tuckamore and bog or took shortcuts along the shoreline, chancing the unpredictable sea ice. Every hill and pond and stand of trees, every meadow and droke for miles was named and catalogued in their heads. At night they navigated by the moon and stars or by counting outcrops and valleys or by the smell of spruce and salt water and wood smoke. It seemed to Newman they had an additional sense lost to modern men for lack of use.
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Michael Crummey (Galore)
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What used the darling ones to do? ‘How used they keep themselves contented Before this monster was invented?’ Have you forgotten? Don’t you know? We’ll say it very loud and slow: They . . . used . . . to . . . read! They’d read and read, And read and read, and then proceed To read some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks! One half their lives was reading books! The nursery shelves held books galore! Books cluttered up the nursery floor! And in the bedroom, by the bed, More books were waiting to be read! Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales And treasure isles, and distant shores Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars, And pirates wearing purple pants, And sailing ships and elephants, And cannibals crouching ’round the pot, Stirring away at something hot. (It smells so good, what can it be! Good gracious, it’s Penelope.) The younger ones had Beatrix Potter With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter, And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland, And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and— Just How The Camel Got His Hump, And How The Monkey Lost His Rump, And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul, There’s Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole— Oh, books, what books they used to know, Those children living long ago! So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books, Ignoring all the dirty looks, The screams and yells, the bites and kicks, And children hitting you with sticks— Fear not, because we promise you That, in about a week or two Of having nothing else to do, They’ll now begin to feel the need Of having something good to read. And once they start—oh boy, oh boy! You watch the slowly growing joy
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Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
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Washingtonians are a bunch of cultured, egotistical, lumpen-elitist snobs who live in their own dream world completely divorced from the rest of the country. Everything they do had to show that they The Bureaucrats are superior to the poor miserable souls in the rest of the country who only exist to pay for their masters’ existence. To ensure this, the government provides cultural events galore for its workers. One need only visit the city and see all the galleries, theaters, orchestras, ballets, and other centers of artistic creation, happily supported by government grants, to discover how true this is.
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Bryan Taylor (The Three Sisters)
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To question whether philosophy of religion is possible in the present situation, when there are books and articles galore, and several journals, devoted in whole or part to philosophy of religion, has an unrealistic ring.
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David Werther (Philosophy and the Christian Worldview: Analysis, Assessment and Development (Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion))
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Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
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Samuel Walz (Useless Facts Galore - Yes, It’s A Weird And Crazy World!: Weird facts, funny laws and tons of useless trivia about all kinds of different subjects that you never heard about before... until now.)
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Chocolate does contain sugar, of course, but these are simple sugars that are less harmful than the complex sugars contained in other foods.
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Samuel Walz (Useless Facts Galore - Yes, It’s A Weird And Crazy World!: Weird facts, funny laws and tons of useless trivia about all kinds of different subjects that you never heard about before... until now.)
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governmental establishments and Palestinian national entities. Opposition to the excavation and desecration of ancient tombs and cemeteries mostly stems from the desire to protect religious communities—their beliefs and practices—rather than the individual. In contrast to the actual act of excavating tombs, however, very few ethical concerns have been
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Katharina Galor (Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology)
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He’s a lawyer, so fighting with him is like being interrogated by imposing counsel. He uses innuendo and leading questions, false assumptions galore. As if there’s some invisible jury who’s going to congratulate him and say, ‘You win!’”
—Amber, Joliet, IL
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Merry Bloch Jones (I Love Him, But . . .)
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For most of us, it is our fears and regrets which define the people we become; it is our fears which come back in the night, like ghosts, and which terrorise our lives. It is our regrets which interfere with our ambitions so that instead of looking forward we are forever peering over our shoulders at the past. Caleb and Bunty were so occupied with tomorrow that they never had time for yesterday. They had interests and enthusiasms galore.
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Vernon Coleman (The Young Country Doctor Book 11: Bilbury Delights)
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Because... I was filthy, arrogant, corrupted, impure, and mother galore of tainting and marring the things on my way.
I was a fussing, destroying tornado.
In my way, stood her beautiful body, soul, and heart, I was going to taint and mar her into unrepairable.
Unrecognisable.
And above all, I was going to claim her MINE ~ Rion
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K.R. Ruth (Rion (Immortal Mackays, #1))
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is primarily a result of the immense inequality in living standards across world regions
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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if the governing institutions fail to prevent the violation of agreements – or indeed racketeering, theft, intimidation, nepotism or discrimination – trade is likely to be significantly harder and the typical gains it conveys less available.[3]
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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Scholars refer to institutions that enable elites to monopolise power and perpetuate inequality as extractive institutions. In contrast, institutions that decentralise political power, protect property rights, and encourage private enterprise and social mobility are considered inclusive institutions.
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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Ironically, however, just as Malthus completed his treatise and pronounced that this ‘poverty trap’ would endure indefinitely, the mechanism that he had identified suddenly subsided and the metamorphosis from stagnation to growth took place. How did the human species break out of this
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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In the first part of our voyage, we will explore the Mystery of Growth,
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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this book explores and identifies these undercurrents: the forces that have governed the development process. It demonstrates how these forces operated relentlessly, if invisibly, throughout the course of human history, and its long economic ice age, gathering pace until, at last, technological advancements in the course of the Industrial Revolution accelerated beyond a tipping point, where rudimentary education became essential for the ability of individuals to adapt to the changing technological environment. Fertility rates started to decline and the growth in living standards was liberated from the counterbalancing effects of population growth, ushering in long-term prosperity
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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Intriguingly, when prosperity skyrocketed in recent centuries, it did so only in some parts of the world, triggering a second major transformation unique to our species: the emergence of immense inequality across societies.
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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the proliferation of distinct cultural norms contributed to the variation in the movement of the great cogs of history across the globe.[6]
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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the degree of diversity within each society, its beneficial effects on innovation and its adverse implications for social cohesiveness.
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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education, tolerance and greater gender equality hold the keys to our species’ flourishing in the decades and centuries to come.
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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Such a brain has only evolved once – in humans. Why is such a powerful brain so rare in nature, despite its apparent advantages?
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Oded Galor (The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality)
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Además, los datos de las zonas actuales que corresponden al antiguo Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico sugieren que el protestantismo se asocia hoy con una probabilidad significativamente mayor de convertirse en empresario.5
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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En otras palabras, es el componente cultural el que resulta adecuado para comprender la desigualdad entre grupos.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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Franz Boas, el único rasgo que tienen en común la mayoría de las culturas es la convicción errónea y a veces destructiva de que sus propias normas son las únicas universalmente adecuadas. Esta tendencia puede haber contribuido a la aparición del racismo como rasgo cultural en muchas sociedades.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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¡Atrévete a saber! (Sapere aude.) «Ten el valor de usar tu propio entendimiento» es, por tanto, el lema de la Ilustración.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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es probable que en algunas sociedades los rasgos culturales hayan sido y sigan siendo una barrera para el desarrollo.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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Sin embargo, no hace mucho tiempo, la brecha salarial entre géneros era mucho mayor que la actual, y se ha reducido significativamente en todo el mundo desde el inicio de la segunda fase de la industrialización
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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Así pues, las abundantes evidencias históricas indican que los avances tecnológicos durante la Revolución Industrial condujeron a un mayor rendimiento de las inversiones en capital humano, una reducción de la brecha salarial entre géneros, un rechazo al trabajo infantil, un incremento de la esperanza de vida y un aumento en la migración desde entornos rurales a regiones urbanas, y que estos factores contribuyeron al descenso de la natalidad durante la transición demográfica.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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círculo virtuoso entre progreso tecnológico y formación del capital humano.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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Hacia 1881-1882 se había instaurado un sistema de educación primaria universal, gratuita, obligatoria y laica que hacía hincapié en la educación científica y técnica, y la proporción de niños entre cinco y catorce años en las escuelas primarias se incrementó del 52 por ciento en 1850 al 86 por ciento en 1901.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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Por tanto, en lugar de una revolución comunista, la industrialización desencadenó una revolución en la educación de las masas.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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innovación tecnológica, la llegada de la educación universal y el fin del trabajo infantil:
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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innovación tecnológica, la llegada de la educación universal y el fin del trabajo infantil: en estos tres aspectos fundamentales, la Revolución Industrial fue realmente la era del progreso.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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Como apuntó el escritor científico Matt Ridley en su libro El optimista racional, el progreso tecnológico se produce «cuando las ideas practican sexo».
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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fertilización cruzada
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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polinización intelectual cruzada de la que depende el progreso tecnológico y comercial.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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Si estas tendencias se combinaran con políticas que permitieran a las sociedades con mayor diversidad aumentar su cohesión social y a las homogéneas beneficiarse de la polinización intelectual cruzada, podríamos empezar a abordar la desigual distribución contemporánea de la riqueza desde su raíz.
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Oded Galor (El viaje de la humanidad: El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la desigualdad (Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition))
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The Electoral College is a creaky, shadowy place filled with hidden doors and booby traps galore, the perfect jagged battleground for a lawless demagogue like Donald Trump, king of the deep-inside fix, the low blow, and the late hit, just the kind of place to whip up some kind of madcap switcheroo, an insider coup based on indefensible new “interpretations” of the Constitution.
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Jamie Raskin (Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy)