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“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“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
Great Expectations • Charles Dickens“Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”
Emma • Jane Austen“All warfare is based on deception.”
The Art Of War • Sun Tzu“Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.”
What is art? • Leo Tolstoy