Food production, and competition and diffusion between societies, led as ultimate causes ... of conquest. Guns, Germs And Steel
A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond. Don Quixote
"He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately. The Winter of Our Discontent
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