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Educar con Inteligencia Emocional

by Maurice J. Elias

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A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

by Frank Brinkley

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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

by Nicholas Ostler

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""Writing systems, after all, exist to record what people say, not viceversa. There is no other case in history of a change in writing technology [Arameic alphabetical script] inducing a change in popular speech."" — Nov 06, 2017 10:47AM

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“She has been standing in the future for years, waiting for the rest of us to catch up. But”
― Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Edition of Hidden Figures—Celebrating African American Women Pioneers at NASA

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“To gain a new mindset you need to repeatedly practice habits. Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings.”
― Danny Dover, The Minimalist Mindset

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“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”
― Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

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“A public employee, having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

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“with the exception of Chinese, even the languages that originated writing, and so made the earliest use of it, have dropped their original system, and borrowed another,”
― Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

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