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""Once, God explained all mysteries. Now He has been usurped by conspiracy theorists. They are the heretics of the age.”
Really loving this book. Loving the inner thoughts of the characters, bureaucratic tensions, and raw humanity of flawed people balancing their relationships to God and engagement with the broader earthly systems of power." — Jan 04, 2025 09:24AM
""Once, God explained all mysteries. Now He has been usurped by conspiracy theorists. They are the heretics of the age.”
Really loving this book. Loving the inner thoughts of the characters, bureaucratic tensions, and raw humanity of flawed people balancing their relationships to God and engagement with the broader earthly systems of power." — Jan 04, 2025 09:24AM
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""Obviously, the peloton cannot be boiled down to its name....It is malleable, and that is an understatement: it is shaped by the wind, the road, and the goals of the individuals who compose it."" — Dec 25, 2024 09:30PM
""Obviously, the peloton cannot be boiled down to its name....It is malleable, and that is an understatement: it is shaped by the wind, the road, and the goals of the individuals who compose it."" — Dec 25, 2024 09:30PM
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"Read the first chapter to the boys at bedtime. While Grant's prose isn't nearly as succinct and simple as Hemingway's, it is direct and the logical progression of the things he is recounting has a similar feeling to Hemingway. Really impressed by how he so neatly captured his childhood in a single chapter, and EXTREMELY blown away (as were my boys) by how much he did (relative to today's kids) at such a young age." — Sep 07, 2024 01:09PM
"Read the first chapter to the boys at bedtime. While Grant's prose isn't nearly as succinct and simple as Hemingway's, it is direct and the logical progression of the things he is recounting has a similar feeling to Hemingway. Really impressed by how he so neatly captured his childhood in a single chapter, and EXTREMELY blown away (as were my boys) by how much he did (relative to today's kids) at such a young age." — Sep 07, 2024 01:09PM
I hope you will remember, too, that we all have some nostalgia for whatever kindness we have known as children, however bizarre the conditions of that childhood may seem to others.


“The data shows the necessity to acknowledge this legacy, through the cumulative carbon emissions per capita from 1850 to 2021. During this period, Canadians emitted the most (1,751 tonnes per capita), followed by the Americans (1,547), the New Zealanders (1,388), the Russians (1,181) and the British (1,100). By contrast, during that same period, the Chinese emitted 197 tonnes per capita and the Indians 61 tonnes.61 Today, the Chinese and the Indians are among the largest world emitters in absolute terms, but the ranking in relative terms (that is, emissions per capita) is still dominated by the Americans.”
― The Great Narrative
― The Great Narrative

“One day, either we will all be dead, or we will all be New Yorkers.”
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
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