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“The feeling of self-assurance derived from physical achievement always transfers itself to the mental sphere.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig“Thus, because we are rapidly advancing along this non-sustainable course, the world's environmental problems will get resolved, in one way or another, within the lifetimes of the children and young adults alive today The only question is whether they will become resolved in pleasant ways of our own choice, or in unpleasant ways not of our choice, such as warfare, genocide, starvation, disease epidemics, and collapses of societies. While all of those grim phenomena have been endemic to humanity throughout our history, their frequency increases with environmental degradation, population pressure, and the resulting poverty and political instability.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
A Tale of Two Cities • Charles Dickens“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.”
Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens