Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. Autumn Leaves
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. The Third Wave
[..] the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
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