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“Married people pledge love for each other throughout eternity. Well, now, that is easy enough but does not mean very much, for if one is finished with time one is probably finished with eternity. If, instead of saying "throughout eternity," the couple would say, "until Easter, until next May Day," then what they say would make some sense, for then they would be saying something and also something they perhaps could carry out.”
Either/Or • Soren Kierkegaard“Because we are the cause of our environmental problems, we are the ones in control of them, and we can choose or not choose to stop causing them and start solving them. The future is up for grabs, lying in our own hands. We don’t need new technologies to solve our problems; while new technologies can make some contribution, for the most part we "just" need the political will to apply solutions already available.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“ Thanks to the achievements of East Asia's first farmers, China became Chinese. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“ "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka