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Goodall fingered his chin, looking puzzled, as though he'd recently had a beard and someone had taken it while he wasn't looking.

Humour is our 'default mode', if you like: we do not have to switch it on deliberately, and we cannot switch it off.

fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love of words more than a love of women...

By now I had learned enough about the narrowness of a woman's choices to guess that they were not all harlots, only less lucky than I had been.

When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over

It seems rather prophetic. We were just joking about this the other day." "I know. Fate has annoying timing.

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WEIRD societies: ones that are Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic.21

Don't wait for economic growth to reduce inequality—because it won't. Instead, create an economy that is distributive by design.

Regenerative industrial design can only be fully realised if it is underpinned by regenerative economic design.

witnessing barefaced power games block progress in international negotiations.

worked with Oxfam for over a decade.

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.'19

Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is both. We are ourselves story, just as we are language. That is the nature of both narrative and love.

Naturally, etiquette books order handwashing before as well as after meals, but the practice also appears, with a frequency that borders on obsession, in poetry. Poets found it hard to describe a banquet or even a meal without affirming that everyone washed their hands.

In November 1917, however, instead of myth, there was only regret over the birth of a girl. But not devastation. Kamala

She never noticed that after Arlo entered her life, her nightmares about replicating vermin disappeared.

We're here to talk about the safety of teenage girls, Father Molloy. Or isn't the church concerned with that anymore?

belonged to an order that flickered out of existence sometime early in the twentieth century.

Betty," I say, shaking her shoulder. "What?" she moans. "Leave me be. I'm bewitched. It makes me tired.

I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics, it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.