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I saved Latin. What did you ever do?
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Max Fisher
#Latin
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Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life
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Max Fisher
#Something You Love
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Here is what Muslims and Muslim organizations are expected to say: "As a Muslim, I condemn this attack and terrorism in any form." This expectation we place on Muslims, to be absolutely clear, is Islamophobic and bigoted.
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Max Fisher
#Organization
#Expectations
#Terrorism
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Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.
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Max Fisher
#Powerful
#Understanding
#Tools
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The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.
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Max Fisher
#Horse
#War
#Technology
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Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.
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Max Fisher
#Latin
#Average
#America
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The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.
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Max Fisher
#United States
#Population
#World
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It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.
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Max Fisher
#Winning
#Secret
#Nobel
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The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.
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Max Fisher
#United States
#Income
#Inequality
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We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.
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Max Fisher
#Powerful
#Europe
#Age
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Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.
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Max Fisher
#Religious
#Iraq
#Important
