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Warwick Stubbs
is on page 61 of 400
"Barbara Tuchman in her book 'A Distant Mirror' gives an example of a popular game in medieval France: people with their hands tied behind their backs competed to kill a cat nailed to a post by battering it with their heads, risking the loss of an eye from the scratching of the desperate cat in the process." (p. 29)
And they say violent video games are bad for your children. Read books, learn things!
— Apr 29, 2017 04:00PM
And they say violent video games are bad for your children. Read books, learn things!
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Warwick Stubbs
is on page 306 of 400
"An entirely fictional war in the Indian state of Goa was invented, and not only survived for five years on Wikipedia, but became a popular entry and won an award." (p.304)
— May 08, 2017 02:31AM
Warwick Stubbs
is on page 242 of 400
"'The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern,' said Lord Acton. 'Every class is unfit to govern.'" (p.241)
— May 06, 2017 04:47AM
Warwick Stubbs
is on page 228 of 400
"The closer you look at the history of economic development, the less you find that it has owed to leadership." (p.228)
— May 05, 2017 08:15PM
Warwick Stubbs
is on page 220 of 400
"Doomed every four years to disappointment when a demigod turns out to have feet of clay, when the most powerful man in the world turns out not to have much power to change the world, the American people none the less never lose faith in the presidential religion." (p.220)
— May 05, 2017 06:39PM
Warwick Stubbs
is on page 116 of 400
"As with so much of modern life, the state has socialised the cost and privatised the reward." (p.116)
— May 02, 2017 12:00AM
Warwick Stubbs
is on page 81 of 400
"The prescriptive habit has us all tut-tutting at the decline of language standards, the loss of punctuation and the debasement of vocabulary, but it's all nonsense. Language is just as rule-based in it's newest slang forms, and just as sophisticated as it ever was in ancient Rome." (p.80)
— May 01, 2017 03:36AM
