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“It may be said, indeed, that without bones and muscles and the other parts of the body I cannot execute my purposes. But to say that I do as I do because of them, and that this is the way in which the mind acts, and not from the choice of the best, is a very careless and idle mode of speaking. I wonder that they cannot distinguish the cause from the condition, which the many, feeling about in the dark, are always mistaking and misnaming.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“As ill-luck would have it ...”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes“I recommend all adventurous youths who abandon vessels in romantic islands during the rainy season to provide themselves with umbrellas.”
Typee • Herman Melville“Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...].”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“ The resulting food surpluses ... were a prerequisite for the development of ... innovative societies. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)