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“All that is from the gods is full of Providence.”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson • Mark Twain“Thus, because we are rapidly advancing along this non-sustainable course, the world's environmental problems will get resolved, in one way or another, within the lifetimes of the children and young adults alive today The only question is whether they will become resolved in pleasant ways of our own choice, or in unpleasant ways not of our choice, such as warfare, genocide, starvation, disease epidemics, and collapses of societies. While all of those grim phenomena have been endemic to humanity throughout our history, their frequency increases with environmental degradation, population pressure, and the resulting poverty and political instability.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!”
The Inspector General • Nikolai Gogol“ Europe's colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)