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The first vaccine for smallpox was developed at the end of the 18th century, and by the end of the 19th century, the disease had become comparatively rare in most industrialized countries. In the 20th century, medical advances made the
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After coming so far from having massive amounts of people dying of smallpox, we are back at a 19th century mode of thinking.
“Situations change and clinging too tightly to what came before kills you.”
― Babylon's Ashes
― Babylon's Ashes
“But looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were.”
― Nemesis Games
― Nemesis Games
“Most of what we know isn’t why things are what they are. We just figure out enough about how they work that we can predict the next thing that’s going to happen.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
― Babylon’s Ashes
“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often for ever.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe
Felipe’s 2025 Year in Books
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