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“Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order.”
The Common Reader • Virginia Woolf““He was prepared to joke with them, to tell them stories from his journeyman years, and in turn to listen to their stories, anything just so as to keep them awake, to be able to show them again and again that he had nothing edible in the cage, and that he starved in a way that not one of them could.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“”‘I am on your side. But you have no way of knowing it, because your heart is blind.‘””
Stranger • Albert Camus“In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.”
War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy