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Obviously, some momentous change took place in our ancestors’ capabilities between about 100,000 and 50,000 years ago. That Great Leap Forward poses two major unresolved questions, regarding its triggering cause and its geographic location.
“if you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success”
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“Read a verse of Homer and you can walk the walls of Troy alongside Hector; fall into a paragraph by Fitzgerald and your Now entangles with Gatsby’s Now; open a 1953 book by Ray Bradbury and go hunting T. rexes. Ursula Le Guin said: “Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time,” and she’s right, of course. The shelves of every library in the world brim with time machines. Step into one, and off you go.”
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“One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.”
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“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
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