As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing useful, and whether the society could support the necessary specialist scribes. Guns, Germs And Steel
“Because […] sometimes the only way to learn is to live.” Midnight Library
It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth. Fragment
“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.” The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
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