My Commonplace Blog

A digital form of the sadly lost fashion for copying out memorable passages from texts. I kept losing my actual book.

Friday, 25 October 2019

(Winsome doesn’t think Hazel should be in their reading group)

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She and the reading group had a big argument, no, it wasn’t no argument, it was a debate, the other day, about whether a poem was good becau...
Thursday, 24 October 2019

It is from the house of a coward that we point to the ruins of the house of a brave man

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If an arrow is pointed at the chest of a defenceless man, that man must do as he is told. To do any different in the face of indefensible da...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Time is divine – an entity to whose will man must submit

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One of the most striking differences between the way of the great fathers and their children is that the latter have adopted the White Man’...
Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Having a fast food restaurant within 0.1 miles of a school would result in 5.2 per cent increase in child obesity rates

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The nearer you live to fast food restaurants, whether as an adult or a child, the more likely you are to have obesity. One study from 2010 ...
Monday, 21 October 2019

A dense overworked phosphorescent ring of disappointment

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But now, food colourings are back with a vengeance with the 'rainbow' food of Instagram, notably rainbow bagels. What's a rainb...
Sunday, 20 October 2019

Bread used to be central to our lives

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Bread used to be central to our lives, largely because it gobbled up so much of our incomes. In the nineteenth century, an average British ...
Saturday, 19 October 2019

It makes no sense to presume that there has been a sudden collapse of willpower across all ages and ethnic groups and each sex since the 1960s

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A survey of more than three hundred international policymakers found that 90 per cent of them believed the personal motivation - aka willpo...
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