"So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn money in quite different ways." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
The resulting food surpluses ... were a prerequisite for the development of ... innovative societies. Guns, Germs And Steel
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power. History as a System
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage--his name is self. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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