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admin on May 31st, 2010

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is a good read.
Perhaps out of zillions reasons behind success, Gladwell bets on culture. He considers cultural legacies as powerful forces.
They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and [...]

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admin on January 22nd, 2009

“The Magistrate lives peacefully in a garrison of the Empire located in the frontier of a country (South Africa is never mentioned, though suggested), which from time to time has been attacked by barbarians. The arrival of a general from the big city, however, brings horror to the town, dragging in barbarians to be tortured [...]

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