The Littlest Hobo: why does a salad cost more than a big mac? (US version)

Monday, 13 February 2012

Books

The Gifts of Imperfection
The 4-Hour Work Week
Stumbling on Happiness
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Piano Tuner
The Other Hand
Reading Lolita in Tehran (again)
How to Be a Woman
Android Karenina
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Unaccustomed Earth
The Lemon Tree
The Shock Doctrine
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Aid and Other Dirty Business
The Map of Love
The Poisonwood Bible
Saving Fish from Drowning
The Secret Lives of Bees
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Book Thief
Random Acts of Heroic Love
The End of Poverty
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Down Under
Paradise
Nine Parts of Desire
Lords of Poverty
A Thousand Splendid Suns
She's Come Undone
From Beruit to Jerusalem
The Kite Runner
City of Falling Angels

quotes

Human nature suggests that if you build it, they will use it (referring to military tools and toys) -- Heather Digby Parton
The face of all the world is changed, I think, since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our biggest tragedy is that our children learned the logic of war
What you do today has everything to do with where you'll be in six months
Meaning in life is not given but is something actively created -- Viktor Frankl
No idea has ever been defeated by force — not by siege, not by bombardment, not by being flattened with tank treads and not by marine commandos. To defeat an idea, you have to offer a better idea, a more attractive and acceptable one -- Amos Oz
'What Is' may hinder 'What Might Be' for a while, but cannot stay the tide of progress
Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense. --Rumi