“…Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. …”

“…Democracy, unlike any other form of government, demands that citizens take responsibility for their politics. …”

“…The authors believe that open dialogue must not be avoided until the last minute when opportunities will be limited, but that caregivers and loved ones can embrace this time, mortal time, honestly as a way to sensitively and compassionately engage with those for whom a central fact of life is realized--that all of our lives are time-limited. …”

“…He explains how Democrats similarly conceived economic justifications for their own policies, but unlike Republicans they changed positions on issues rather than simply offering new arguments and thus helped push the national discourse inexorably to the right. …”
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“…"A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the right to housing raises housing itself to the position of primary importance. …”

“…Lo sguardo si estende a tutto il continente, evitando punti di osservazione che ne restituiscano visioni solo parziali e incomplete. …”

“…Im antiken Athen wurden Grundformen der Demokratie erfunden und erprobt; das antike Rom wird bewundert für seine Rechtssicherheit und die effektive Organisation des Imperiums. …”

“…Together, the materials in this book weave the fabric of semiotics and significs, two names for the unfolding of semiotics in law and legal discourse at least until the second half of the 20th century, and both of which covered a lawyer's focus on sign and meaning in law. …”

“…Padilla writes, Lives are scattered on broken pages, faded, partially lost at the margins, suspended in language unread until there is a reader who opens the file and begins. …”
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“…Even conservative evangelical institutions until recently encouraged serious engagement with evolutionary science, unhindered by the straitjacket of young-earth creationism, intelligent design, or other views demanding that Adam be a historical figure. …”

“…The Lums are cursed: ever since Grandpa Melvin was inspired to join the U.S. army after watching a Popeye movie and-as family lore has it-unleashed a "relentless rain of steel death" upon the Nazis, Lum after Lum has been doomed to an untimely demise, be it by tainted cheeseburger or speeding ice cream truck. …”
Sumario

“…Gaining freedom from barriers has no value in itself until it is partnered with an equally determined sense of what you truly want. …”

“…A nascent civic concept of Spanish identity clashed with a racialist understanding that Spaniards were necessarily of pure blood and "white," unlike converted Jews and Muslims, Amerindians, and Africans.Gradually Spaniards settled the most intractable of these disputes. …”

“…The case for Turkey's "official history" rests on documents from the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently. It is this very source that Akam now uses to overturn the official narrative. …”

“…But he was also an astute reader who denied his skill as an editor, an inveterate, spicy letter writer, an ardent nationalist, loyal friend, devoted family man, and a man whose passion for the family business delayed his leave-taking until the company's financial difficulties nearly killed him. …”

“…Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the contemporary scholarly discussions of this important thinker. Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie Kierkegaard to any particular "school." …”

“…In particular, the roles of 'Tutiorism' (whereby an individual follows the law rather than the instinct of their own conscience) and 'Probabilism' (which conversely gives priority to the individual's conscience) are examined.It is argued that for most of the sixteenth century, books such as Juan Alfonso de Polanco's "Directory for Confessors" espousing a Tutiorist line dominated the market for Jesuit confessional manuals until the seventeenth century, by which time Probabilism had become the dominating force in Jesuit theology.What caused this switch, from Tutiorism to Probablism, forms the central thesis of Dr Maryks' book. …”

“…This compelling and accessible book reveals how culture is not just the magnificent end product of an evolutionary process that produced a species unlike all others—it is also the key driving force behind that process. …”

“…"Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. …”

“…But just what form this "new France" should take remained the burning question at the heart of French political combat until the Algerian War ended, over a decade later. …”