Jeremy

“The statistics show that the Southerner who can avoid arguments and adultery is as safe as any other American, and probably safer.” In the backcountry, violence wasn’t for economic gain. It was personal. You fought over your honor.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its speakers.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“In my own small experience, sexism has been something very simple: the cumulative weight of constantly being told that you can’t possibly be what you are.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and attended by Silence.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit