#polo

The assertion that "culture" explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parents cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age, and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other. ↗

— John Tooby

#evolutionary-psychology #sexes #age

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#love #skepticism #age

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#apologies #women #anger

And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it. ↗

— Lora Leigh

#apologizing #anger

Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#art #hope #mystics #renewal #resurrection

Por aquellos años su padre comprendía que un pueblo podía cambiar su "modo de vida", su historia, su tecnología, su cultura, su arte y su literatura, pero no le concedía la menor posibilidad de que cambiara sus gestos. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#pueblos #art

The longest way round is the shortest way home. ↗

— Apologetics Press

#home

Remember that you don't owe anyone an apology. You are who you are, you have no choice, and that is beautiful. ↗

— Emy Storey

#don-t-apologize #emy-storey #lgbt #tegan-and-sara #you-are-who-you-are

See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ... THese leaves will die. They will rot. They will disappear into the universal mold. The energy that is in them will be released to reappear, the ions to act again, perhaps in the corn on the plain, perhaps in the body of a bird. The atoms and the ions remain or resurrect; the forms change and flux. We see the forms and mourn the change. We think all is lost; yet nothing is lost. The harmony of life is never ending.' The economy of nature provides that nothing be lost. ↗

— Russell Lord

#anthropology #archaeology #gaia-hypothesis #history #change

This was one of the little ways in which he said sorry. They were meant to add up each day. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#sorry #beauty