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“In contrast, once food can be stockpiled, a political elite can gain control of food produced by others, assert the right of taxation, escape the need to feed itself, and engage full-time in political activities.”
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The Common Reader • Virginia Woolf“We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.”
Enchiridion • Epictetus“ Only a small percentage of wild mammal species ended up in happy marriages with humans. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“Everywhere soldiering entails the same busily empty monotony; hour after hour is mapped out in accordance with inflexible, antediluvian regulations, and even one's leisure does not seem to offer much in the way of variety. In the officers' mess the same faces, the same conversation; at the cafe the same games of cards and billiards.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig