David Sasaki
http://davidsasaki.name
https://www.goodreads.com/osopecoso
Pero aquello era una mentira familiar que mis hermanos y yo nos contábamos porque es más digno tener un padre muerto que un padre que no te quiere, y duele menos.
“Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“There is something improbably about the silence in the [subway] carriage, considering how naturally gregarious we are as a species. Still, how much kinder it is for the commuters to pretend to be absorbed in other things, rather than revealing the extent to which they are covertly evaluating, judging, condemning and desiring each other. A few venture a glance here and there, as furtively as birds pecking grain. But only if the train crashed would anyone know for sure who else had been in the carriage, what small parts of the nation's economy had been innocuously seated across the aisle just before the impact: employees of hotels, government ministries, plastic-surgery clinics, fruit nurseries and greetings-card companies.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“Logically enough, the office and the nunnery have been singularly popular in the imaginations of pornographers. We should not be surprised to learn that the erotic novels of the early modern period were overwhelmingly focused on debauchery and flagellation amongst clergy in vespers and chapels, just as contemporary Internet pornography is inordinately concerned with fellatios and sodomies performed by office workers against a backdrop of work stations and computer equipment.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“the moral narcissist’s extreme humility masked a dreadful pride. Ordinary people could accept that they had faults; the moral narcissist could not.”
― Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
― Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
Global Voices
— 49 members
— last activity Mar 27, 2009 08:00AM
A book club for authors, translators, and editors of Global Voices - https://globalvoices.org
A book club for authors, translators, and editors of Global Voices - https://globalvoices.org
Hewlett Foundation Nonfiction Book Club
— 1 member
— last activity Oct 03, 2016 02:29AM
A low-stakes quarterly book club for books related to the work of the Hewlett Foundation.
A low-stakes quarterly book club for books related to the work of the Hewlett Foundation.
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