If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism. The Karamazov Brothers
Why, within Eurasia, were European societies, rather than those of the Fertile Crescent or China or India, the ones that colonized America and Australia, took the lead in technology, and became politically and economically dominant in the modern world? Guns, Germs And Steel
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Never Give In!
"Have no friends not equal to yourself." The Analects of Confucius
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