Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. Captain Brassbound's Conversion
“Even in him, even in your great teacher, I prefer the thing to the words, his actions and his life are more important than his speech, the gestures of his hand more important than his opinions.” Siddhartha
African and European skulls of half a million years ago were sufficiently similar to skulls of us moderns that they are classified in our species, Homo sapiens, instead. Guns, Germs And Steel
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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