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In 70,000 years, we have reshaped Earth's biology twice. First, we killed all the megafauna on the planet, and then we planted and domesticated everything, including ourselves. We upgraded ourselves from believing to knowing, dethroned God, and did put ourselves on the...
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The day was warm, and there was no shade; out of the olive woods which they had left behind, and where all was soft coolness and freshness, they had emerged into a piece of road widened and perfected by recent improvements till it was as shelterless as a broad street....
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The subject of this little book is, as its title shows, Cesare Lombroso, the man and the investigator; it makes no attempt to deal adequately with Lombroso, the reformer of criminology and criminal sociology. To do justice to Lombroso's work in the latter respect would...
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Dieses Buch soll keine neuen Gräben aufreißen,
es soll Brücken zum Verständnis schlagen.
Nur wenn ich weis was dem Anderen widerfahren ist,
kann ich seine Haltung, sein Tun, seine Einstellung verstehen.
Dieses Buch kann nur einen kleinen Ausschnitt wiedergeben von den...
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Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely,...
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Eine der eindrücklichsten Sagenlandschaften im Harz ist, neben der des Brockens und des Fleckens Thale mit seinen Kultplätzen Hexentanzplatz und Rosstrappe, definitiv Blankenburg. Neben dem Städtchen selbst mit dessen Ortsteilen, die im Büchlein ebenso Erwähnung finden,...
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The following work was written several years since, simply as an historical study, and with little expectation of its publication. Recent movements in several portions of the great Christian Church seem to indicate, however, that a record of ascetic celibacy, as...
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MONEY is the blood of our economy. If the blood is dirty, our body gets sick. The same applies to the economy: If the money is dirty, the economy gets sick. Money's dirty because we don't handle it well. Too much dirt sticks to the money.
We, humans, are too...
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Prägnante Zusammenfassung und kritische Analyse zu Cass R. Sunsteins und Richard H. Thalers Nudge: Wie man kluge Entscheidungen anstößtWie können wir dafür sorgen, dass anderen Menschen gute Entscheidungen leichter fallen? Die Antwort auf diese Frage haben Richard...
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"The glen of the Raven's Cliff becomes a wild gorge below the fountain of Arethusa, and descends abruptly to the sea. Above, a stripe of bare, pale-gray rock down the cliff shows that in winter it is the location of a cataract, though, when I visited the locality, dry...
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We all have stories and our stories are shaped by our life experiences. Who we talk to, where we live, what we eat, what we see, make up the core of our stories. Even though we all have stories, we don't usually share them, we keep them in our hearts as treasures. What...
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Every year, more than five million children die before their fifth birthday and almost 300,000 women perish in connection to pregnancy and childbirth. The reasons for these tragedies are not primarily medical, but a matter of priorities and values. Social and cultural...
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THE MAN whose acquaintance with cosmogony and physiography is confined to what he learned in school, and, perhaps, afterward read in popular publications, has certain very definite notions about the shape of the earth and the construction of its interior. These notions,...
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IN publishing this somewhat rambling and unsystematic series of papers, in which I have endeavoured to touch briefly upon a great many of the most important points in the study of mythology, I think it right to observe that, in order to avoid confusing the reader with...
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"Count not your chickens before they be hatched," is a well-known proverb in English, and most people, if asked what was its origin, would probably appeal to La Fontaine's delightful fable, La Laitière et le Pot au Lait. 1 We all know Perrette, lightly stepping along...
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Growth is commonly regarded as something positive, as something to be rewarded. At the same time the growth of the global population and economy leads to depletion of resources, violent competition and consequently, to the impairment of the quality of life on...
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Most writers on proverbs have thought it necessary to attempt a definition of their subject, but the task is difficult, and the phrase that will silence criticism has yet to be produced. Lord Russell's epigram describing a proverb as "The wisdom of many and the wit of...
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Triumphant returning at night with the spoil,
Like Bachanals, shouting and gay:
How sweet with a bottle and song to refresh,
And lose the fatigues of the day.
With sport, wit, and wine, fickle fortune defy,
Dull 'wisdom all happiness sours;
Since Life is no more...
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Essays on Architecture in the Anthropocene.
44 young architects in the making share their reflections and possible/impossible stances facing architecture in the Anthropocene. Every text here has a core of doubt. Doubt that opens up to some insight or towards a focus, an...
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An essay exploring the antisocial and detrimental struggles of timid and ignorant beings.
Propelled by "power" and "profits". As symbols and symptoms.
Of angst and addiction.
Enhanced by a fatal lack of comprehension.
As to common human coexistence.
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