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“Because diseases have been the biggest killers of people, they have also been decisive shapers of history. Until World War II, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“In the night all cats are gray.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes“That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”
Persuasion • Jane Austen“This was the method which I adopted: I first assumed some principle which I judged to be the strongest, and then I affirmed as true whatever seemed to agree with this, whether relating to the cause or to anything else; and that which disagreed I regarded as untrue. ...I want to show you the nature of that cause which has occupied my thoughts, and I shall have to go back to those familiar words which are in the mouth of everyone, and first of all assume that there is an absolute beauty and goodness and greatness, and the like; grant me this, and I hope to be able to show you the nature of the cause, and to prove the immortality of the soul.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato