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“Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own. They were also the first humans to leave behind strong evidence of burying their dead and caring for their sick.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
The Name of The Rose • Umberto Eco“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”
Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare“Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes , which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble as it pleases. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and even if we dream, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two.”
Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens