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“As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing useful, and whether the society could support the necessary specialist scribes.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“Nearly half of all New Guinea languages have fewer than 500 speakers.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it—not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius““A young person cannot judge what is allegorical and what is literal; anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts.””
Republic • Plato“A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig