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Aint nothin wrong with these eyes. Pass the salsa yonder. He spooned the hot sauce over his eggs. Fight fire with fire. Aint that right John Grady?
“The average person in William Shakespeare's time lived no better than his counterpart in Homer's time.”
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“The coolest most amazing people I have met in my life, I said, are the ones who are not very interested in power or money, but who are very interested in laughter and courage and grace under duress and holding hands against the darkness, and finding new ways to solve old problems, and being attentive and tender and kind to every sort of being, especially dogs and birds, and of course children.”
― Chicago
― Chicago
“476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc. etc., - they learn to fetch books sit in armchairs, etc. etc.”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
“It’s still running today. If you examined the years since 1800 in twenty-year increments, and charted every way that human welfare can be expressed in numbers—not just annual per capita GDP, which climbed to more than $6,000 by 2000, but mortality at birth (in fact, mortality at any age); calories consumed; prevalence of infectious disease; average height of adults; percentage of lifetime spent disabled; percentage of population living in poverty; number of rooms per person; percentage of population enrolled in primary, secondary, and postsecondary education; illiteracy; and annual hours of leisure time—the chart will show every measure better at the end of the period than it was at the beginning. And the phenomenon isn’t restricted to Europe and North America; the same improvements have occurred in every region of the world. A baby born in France in 1800 could expect to live thirty years—twenty-five years less than a baby born in the Republic of the Congo in 2000. The nineteenth-century French infant4 would be at significantly greater risk of starvation, infectious disease, and violence, and even if he or she were to survive into adulthood, would be far less likely to learn how to read.”
― The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
― The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
“For philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.”
― Philosophical Investigations
― Philosophical Investigations
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