The color of truth is grey. Autumn Leaves

Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action. Atomic Habits

 I am unaware of anyone ... seriously suggesting ... biological features of the region's peoples that might have contributed.  Guns, Germs And Steel

[One of the company... said: ...is not this the direct contrary of what we admitted before—that out of the greater came the less and out of the less the greater, and that opposites are simply generated from opposites; whereas now this seems to be utterly denied.] ...then we were speaking of opposites in the concrete, and now of the essential opposite which, as is affirmed, neither in us nor in nature can ever be at variance with itself... these essetial opposites will never, as we maintain, admit of generation into or out of one another. The Trials Of Socrates