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TROPIC OF CANCER Series: Proverbs and sayings are an important part of any culture. So are these Turkish one’s and translated into English. These, and many more inspirational and motivational
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Charles Taylor in the Los Angeles Review of Books: American Stutter, 2019–2021, novelist Steve Erickson’s journal of our ongoing plague year — the everything-at-once-all-the-time mash-up of election, pandemic, and still-unresolved
Oscar Arias and Jonathan Granoff in The Hill: The world is as close to the nuclear abyss today as it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In fact, contemporary nuclear
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Sense and sensibilities, plus real intelligence as icing on the cake matter. Politics and voting and activism, etc. don’t put food on the table –this I learnt and experienced in
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IMAGINEERING: Cultural change is a prominent agenda item for most CEOs, as it is one of the most challenging aspects of an organizational transformation to execute—and sustain. Rishad Premji, the
By Priya Satia, the Raymond A. Spruance professor of international history at Stanford University: Every historian worth their salt knows that historical and local specificities ultimately render all analogies inaccurate.
Eknath Shinde suffered from depression for several months as two of his sons drowned when a boat they were traveling in capsized in 2000. He received emotional support, and was
Curated from WhatsApp shares, Twitter, etc.: Irshad Salim, Karachi (July 26, 2022)
by Jochen Szangolies: The arbor porphyriana is a scholastic system of classification in which each individual or species is categorized by means of a sequence of differentiations, going from the
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Noam Maggor in the European Review of Books: Saint Domingue was the crown jewel of the French empire in the Caribbean when its slaves rebelled in 1791. They formed the
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Christopher J. Ferguson in Quillette: Modern politics has always been replete with issues about which people feel passionate, sometimes aggressively so. But the culture wars currently raging in the US,
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Maybe it’s comforting to know that there isn’t a rational route to the right decision…spend less time trying to figure out the best path to get to where we want
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