More Quotes of the Day
"In both the United States and the United Kingdom, the more money you make and the more education you have, the more you drink."
-Malcolm Gladwell, reacting to an interesting study done on the relative national healths of the US vs the UK, from http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/ ... ahhh, yet another amazing gladwellian factoid.
"Laws are established in opposition to stories. In a criminal trial, we take a complicated narrative of cause and effect and match it to a simple, impersonal code: first-degree murder, or second-degree murder, or manslaughter. The impersonality of codes is what makes the law fair. But it is also what can make the legal system so painful for victims, who find no room for their voices and their anger and their experiences.
Codes punish, but they cannot heal."
-Malcolm Gladwell, for The New Yorker, paraphrasing Charles Tilly's new novel, "Why?"
read more here.
-Malcolm Gladwell, reacting to an interesting study done on the relative national healths of the US vs the UK, from http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/ ... ahhh, yet another amazing gladwellian factoid.
"Laws are established in opposition to stories. In a criminal trial, we take a complicated narrative of cause and effect and match it to a simple, impersonal code: first-degree murder, or second-degree murder, or manslaughter. The impersonality of codes is what makes the law fair. But it is also what can make the legal system so painful for victims, who find no room for their voices and their anger and their experiences.
Codes punish, but they cannot heal."
-Malcolm Gladwell, for The New Yorker, paraphrasing Charles Tilly's new novel, "Why?"
read more here.
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