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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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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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“Democratic elections usually work only within populations that have some prior common bond, such as shared religious beliefs or national myths. They are a method to settle disagreements among people who already agree on the basics.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

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

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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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“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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“Behind this monstrous shield, liberal democracy and the free market managed to hold out in their last bastions, and Westerners could enjoy sex, drugs and rock and roll, as well as washing machines, refrigerators and televisions. Without nukes, there would have been no Woodstock, no Beatles and no overflowing supermarkets. But in the mid-1970s it seemed that nuclear weapons notwithstanding, the future belonged to socialism.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

tags: atomic-bomb, comunism, nato, nuclear

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