Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible. The Art of Living
Nearly half of all New Guinea languages have fewer than 500 speakers. Guns, Germs And Steel
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. Julius Caesar
To tell my story I have to start far in the past. If I could, I’d have to go back much farther yet, to the very earliest years of my childhood and even beyond them to my distant origins. Demian
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