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Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs. It makes me think of Jacob Marley telling
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“So it should not come as a surprise that millions of pious Christians, Muslims and Jews manage to believe at one and the same time in an omnipotent God and an independent Devil.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Every story begins in blood: a squalling baby yanked from the womb, bathed in mucus and half a quart of their mother’s blood. But not many stories end in blood these days. Usually it’s a return to the hospital and a dry, quiet death surrounded by machines after a heart attack in the driveway, a stroke on the back porch, or a slow fade from lung cancer.”
― The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
― The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
“The Bible decrees that ‘If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife’ (Deuteronomy 22:28–9).”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“He said it with the air of a man who always demands the best, and then settles for what he can get.”
― Top of the Heap
― Top of the Heap
“As long as Homo erectus did not undergo further genetic alterations, its stone tools remained roughly the same – for close to 2 million years!”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Joshua T Mathews’s 2024 Year in Books
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