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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”
Mark Twain's Notebook • Mark Twain““What's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.””
Seagull • Anton Chekhov“In fact, one of the main lesson to be learned from the collapses of the Maya, Anasazi, Easter Islanders, and those other past societies (as well as from the recent collapse of the Soviet Union) is that a society's steep decline may begin only a decade or two after the society reaches its peak numbers, wealth, and power. [...] The reason is simple: maximum population, wealth, resource consumption, and waste production mean maximum environmental impact, approaching the limit where impact outstrips resources. On reflection, it's no surprise that declines of societies tend to follow swiftly on their peaks.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“Chess ... a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.”
The Irrational Knot • George Bernard Shaw““This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli
