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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)“To shrug it all off and wipe it clean--every annoyance and distraction--and reach utter stillness. Child's play. ”
Book V • Marcus Aurelius“The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth. Therefore, when relaxed from our necessary cares and concerns, we then covet to see, to hear, and to learn somewhat; and we esteem knowledge of things either obscure or wonderful to be the indispensable means of living happily. ”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero““You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.””
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos • Jordan B. Peterson“Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill