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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.
“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
“Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, ‘Jack, you have debauched my sloth.”
― HMS Surprise
― HMS Surprise
“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
“Hegel argued that the capitalist organization of work emerging in his time could be ethically justified only on two conditions, described succinctly by Honneth: “first, it must provide a minimum wage; second, it must give all work activities a shape that reveals them to be a contribution to the common good.”47”
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
“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
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