“North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.” SaidBornExampleBirthSingingBirdMiraculousKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanKimKim Il Sung Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.” LifeWellsLongDreamMotherThreeWaterHealingVisionPrinciplesSpecialExampleSourceBirthHolySpringHundredRainTraditionRiversUniversalPatientAncientMedicalParanormalFeminineGoddessSiteFountainWombGreeceSymbolicSpecial PlacesFertilityAncient GreeceRefreshmentsGreat Mother Author:Christopher McDowell
“The biggest misconception may be about my birth country, Lithuania, due to the lack of knowledge about it, but also probably because some strong lobbies work against European construction. There is a huge difference between what I hear from the French media, for example, and what I know about this country and its people.” PeopleKnowsMayCountryStrongDifferencesMediaExampleHugeBirthDuesConstructionMisconceptionLack Of KnowledgeLithuania Author:Alante Kavaite
“My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.” YearsWellsAbleRememberYoungMemoriesGenerationsHappenedExampleBirthProgramMy GenerationParamountRemembers EverythingYoung GenerationQuiz Author:Umberto Eco
“The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.” RealCharacterGirlExampleTvsBirthLawyerReal LifeEndlessRazorsCrassTv Commercial Author:Carl Hiaasen
“Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.” WayWellsDifferentReasonFactsOrderCommonExampleBirthTestsCurrentsOne WayEvolveTraitsHypothesisConfusingUtilitySkullsAncestryFallacyFacilitateSuccessorsMammalsLineageAdaptive Author:Elliott Sober
“When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.” AmericaUsedExampleBirthWeightWestEnormousOnce Upon A TimeMatriarchyClaudia Author:Sergio Leone
“There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.” GivingStatesHappensAmericaSoundUnitedUnited StatesIssuesExampleBirthHappeningsConsciousImpactPrisonReformCaliforniaProgressiveLike SomethingSigningGiving BirthPaperworkPrison Reform Author:Patricia Arquette
“There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.” ChildrenLittlesHouseCenturyExampleBirthSpokesDomainNineteenth CenturyBirth Of A Child Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they kind of push the message: "It's a free country." Everybody has the right to say whatever they want to say. But in the Middle East, culture is your guide. You have to ask, is it culturally okay to say something like that? Is it culturally okay, for example, to show a woman giving birth? As Arabs watching such a scene in an American film it's okay, but when it comes to the Arabic context, we're like, "How dare you?" So it's how you present it.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsFirstsKindCountryStatesShowsFilmCultureAsksSpeakHeardMiddleExampleBirthSceneMessagesOkayDareEastGuidesMiddle EastAmendmentsFirst AmendmentGiving BirthFree CountryAmerican Film Author:Mohammed Saeed Harib
“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.” PeopleMenWorldMindFirstsIdeasFeelingsActionScienceUsedChangeEffortCitiesPovertyTakenTalentExampleIgnoranceBirthEuropeAccountsInstrumentsVicesRationalFallenAccomplishmentContemptPanicCatastropheLiberatedInsurrection Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson