No one would ever believe how hard it is to be really alone in a city of millions when you don't have money. The Post Office Girl
The challenge now is to develop human history as a science. Guns, Germs And Steel
The aphorism, the apophthegm, in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book-- what everyone else does not say in a book. Twilight of the Idols
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. Guns, Germs And Steel
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