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"Until the 17th century, sex outside marriage was illegal and people were punished for it with increasing severity. The last person to be executed for adultery in England was hanged in 1654." fivebooks.com/best-books/18t…
"As a reader, I think the haunted house is one of the most persistently frightening concepts. I don’t believe in ghosts or demons, but the idea of a supernatural force inside my home is terrifying. You can’t escape from home. You are your home!" fivebooks.com/best-books/hau…
Many teenagers seem glued to their screens and are happy to walk around wearing headphones all day. Instead of trying to get them to sit down with a physical book, why not introduce them to some quality reading material published as audiobooks? fivebooks.com/best-books/pri…
"Together we developed reliable high-tech products that are now producing a lot of clean energy, and we saw the wind business grow." fivebooks.com/best-books/jer…
"A famous biologist once wrote that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. And that is absolutely, positively true." fivebooks.com/best-books/ken…
"He famously says that the mafia is a human creation and like all human creations it has a beginning and will have an end” fivebooks.com/best-books/ita…
"They were both these very promising men, these perfectionists, who came to think of themselves as failures." fivebooks.com/best-books/sui…
"These border writers have the very difficult task of showing that the border is extremely important in the lives of these characters. But at the same time they’re also trying to imagine how it could be different." fivebooks.com/best-books/bor…
"Ultimately, sexual love is a kind of misdirection of this desire for the good, which we’ve got to transcend." fivebooks.com/best-books/vir…
"Big expensive universities like Princeton, have a fantastic scholarship scheme that is entirely funded through the prior assets of the university." fivebooks.com/best-books/les…
"At the moment, there’s a real pessimism about what’s happening in this country. There’s nothing new about that—it was there throughout the Thatcher years.” fivebooks.com/best-books/mod…
"It began in Britain and spread across Europe and America over the next three decades, right up until the First World War. And then it continued to spread across to Japan from around the 1920s until the Second World War." fivebooks.com/best-books/art…
"So I don’t think it’s realistic to expect Korean literature, especially fiction, to find as much recognition as music and food. But that won’t stop us trying." fivebooks.com/best-books/the…
"It was a long struggle from the 1970s, to move beyond the predominance of whiteness in the gay liberation movement." fivebooks.com/best-books/que…
"Every language is a historical record, in a sense, of how people have behaved in the past and what concepts have been important to them." fivebooks.com/best-books/lan…
"If you mention his name in India people stand up and cheer. They are tales of Indian life, of Indian people and these short stories are his masterpiece." fivebooks.com/best-books/bes…
"People might attend a Shinto ceremony when they’re a child, and then have a Christian wedding, and then a Buddhist funeral and so forth. There’s this assumption that there’s quite a bit of religious pluralism." fivebooks.com/best-books/jap…
"In every play, the hero is pushed beyond a certain limit, out of the domain in which rules of normal human existence apply; he or she finds him or herself in what Lacan called “between-the-two-deaths”: dead while still alive." fivebooks.com/best-books/sla…
"The nuclear family is almost obsolete nowadays. I think around 45 to 50% of kids are raised in single parent homes, and in addition to that most women now work, one way or another. The whole ecology of the family has changed." fivebooks.com/best-books/mon…
"So I think Brazil is a good example of where women have fought successfully to ensure that the state is supporting women in their culturally subscribed roles and responsibilities.." fivebooks.com/best-books/nic…
