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“Food production was indirectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel. Hence geographic variation in whether, or when, the peoples of different continents became farmers and herders explains to a large extent their subsequent contrasting fates.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent." The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone.”
the Revolt of the Masses • Jose Ortega y Gasset“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”
The Grapes of Wrath • John Steinbeck“Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions. ”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“ “Children’s wounds heal quickly.””
My Sweet Orange Tree • José Mauro de Vasconcelos