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Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress

by Lawrence E. Harrison

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Apr 14, 2024 09:19AM

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Spatial Statistics Illustrated

by Lauren Bennett

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Mar 12, 2024 10:10AM

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LANDERS:FIELD & FORGE:POPULATION PRODUCTION POWER PRE-INDUS WEST PAPER: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West

by John Landers

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“It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

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“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

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“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
― Winston Churchill

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“For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then along came the bankers, investors and industrialists, and within 200 years managed to do exactly that.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

tags: capitalism, mortality, religion

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“In Battuta's obsession with sharia and the Muslim world and in his lack of interest in nearly everything outside it we clearly see the double-edged sword of Islam so visible in today's world: an ecumenical but self-satisfied faith capable of uniting far-flung peoples under one system of belief and one regime of law, but also severely limited in its capacity to examine and borrow from others.”
― William J Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

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