My hope in writing this book has been that enough people will choose to profit from that opportunity to make a difference. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. Moby Dick
No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time New Ways in Psychoanalysis
In historical events great men—so-called—are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity. War and Peace
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