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Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient - perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 10, p. 201 (A reference to Genesis 41:48–49, -
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
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Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
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Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
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Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
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Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
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Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
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Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
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Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.
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