Thomas Fenn

My dreams often have Shawarma in them.

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"Socrates said that philosophy is a preparation for death. For everyone else, there’s travel."

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"Overpacking has the effect of deferring decisions, shifting them from your house to your hotel room. When you understand this, you become more motivated in your packing: it’s senseless to add not just to your physical load but to your mental one."

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"In terms of global impact, socially, culturally and economically, nothing comes close to the World Cup.

“Whatever else is happening, however corrupted and exploited the institution of the World Cup may become,” Wilson writes, “the magic goes on.”"

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A South Asian parent’s love shows up in the small, repeated things. Nobody names it, and nobody has to.

This is love. Extraordinarily consistent, largely unacknowledged love.

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"If we treat love as a public good rather than a private acquisition, we can ask better questions: What economic conditions enable people to form nourishing relationships? What investments help a society cultivate more loving citizens?"
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"Many matches at these potreros offer players the chance to win some cash. The amounts are tiny compared to the wages of their compatriots who play in the glittering European leagues. But potrero players can sometimes earn enough to help pay the bills."

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A masterclass for single-company-longevity in a brutally competitive atmosphere.

Basically: the relentless pursuit of excellence, a ravenous hunger to learn and a breed of kindness that is not weakness.

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"Animated, pensive, laughing, jubilant: Pep Guardiola is a manager who has never disguised his emotions and watching Guardiola has almost been as entertaining as watching the Manchester City teams he has built."

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"We’ve had to become entertainers, where the food and the service and the trust of word-of-mouth is simply not enough.

Where does it end?"

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"Pozhi is a beautiful-sounding word in Malayalam that denotes the seasonal estuarine barrier or sandbar that forms at the mouth of riverine estuaries. The one at Thottapally is probably the most famous of them all."
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"What was once a long sandy beach in the last century is now just a long sea wall fighting a battle against the sea. The fisherfolk now access the sea through the Kayamkulam lake."
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"Languages die every day and people adapt. No what hurts is realizing how much disappears when a language disappears with you. Certain jokes cannot survive translation, neither can certain prayers, or forms of affection, or entire emotional architectures."
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"Expect something absolutely nuts to happen in the next five and a half weeks."

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"It came about because the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) wanted to do something different for their team picture, and lean into the Scandinavian nation’s history."

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"The first goal at the Azteca was blatant cheating. The second was indisputable brilliance. They served as a perfect microcosm of Maradona’s character."

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"It isn’t that we don’t have the time — it’s that we don’t have the energy. There are so many unspoken, byzantine bylaws to male friendship, and there’s an ever-present, low-level fear of running afoul of them."

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"East Africa has grown to develop its own designated chapati that is not just only food but culture and identity—a multilayered chapati cooked with a considerable amount of oil, unlike the Indian chapati that has no layers or oil."

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Fare thee well, Marjane.

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"The story of modern Indian biscuit can be traced back to the arrival of Mughals and Persians in India. It continued with the Dutch, Danes and French, reached its zenith during the British Raj, and continues to unfold to this day."

@GoyaJournal

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"I wonder if the Harry Potter books functioned as something like a Mirror of Erised for my generation. They reflected an image of the world that we so wanted to be real. It was beautiful in its moral simplicity. It was also too good to be true."

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