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I picked up Dinner with King Tut not really knowing much about archaeology, I didn't even realize that experimental archaeology was a field. I have always been curious about how people lived in the past. What drew me in is that this book is not about
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Martin Sheen turned to me and said, “Do you know what Saint Peter says to everyone who tries to get into heaven?” When I looked blankly, the man who once was president said, “Peter says, ‘Don’t you have any scars?’ And when most would
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“The point is that anything capable of self-replication, especially viruses and bacteria, is a potential existential threat. Intelligence, on its own, is not.”
― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
“Imagine learning to swim by reading and memorizing the steps of a front crawl but never jumping into a pool. Why do we teach our students this way?”
― The Message
― The Message
“It is said that every day after covering a considerable distance, Napier would ask his Sindhi guide, ‘Who owns this land?’ and every time the answer would be ‘The Bhuttos’. At one stage he told the man, ‘I’m tired and want to sleep. When we come to the place where the Bhutto lands finish, wake me up.’ The guide didn’t have to do so, and as Napier got up from a long spell of sleep he was amazed to learn that they were still in ‘Bhutto territory’.”
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
“Every Bhutto was enemy of every other Bhutto.”
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
“The story of the Bhutto dynasty since Pakistan was created has been, to a significant extent, the story of the conflict between it and the army and of the Bhuttos’ failed attempts to reach a compromise with the generals.”
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
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