“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. I believe really great men must experience great sadness in the world.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one’s never thought of does.”
― Doomsday Book
― Doomsday Book
“Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the number of dollars in its bank account, not by the happiness of its employees, so the evolutionary success of a species is measured by the number of copies of its DNA.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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