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spite of their differences, however, US officers shared a particular view of the United States as a harbinger of progress and of Panama as a backward tropical place. This overarching ideology shaped their actions and ultimately affected the
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“Something broadly analogous happens when we contemplate historical events, especially catastrophic ones like the First World War. Once they occur, they impose on us (or seem to do so) a sense of their necessity. This is a process”
― The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
― The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
“Here again is the tendency we can discern in the reasoning of so many of the actors in this crisis, to perceive oneself as operating under irresistible external constraints while placing the responsibility for deciding between peace and war firmly on the shoulders of the opponent.”
― The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
― The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
“Both linguists and archaeologists have made communication across the disciplines almost impossible by speaking in dense jargons that are virtually impenetrable to anyone but themselves.”
― The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
― The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
“Nel suo genere x’è un dio. X’è il genere che x’è merda.”
― Numero zero
― Numero zero
“Scientific answers are not definitive: they are, almost by definition, the best ones that we have at any given time. Consider”
― The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy
― The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy
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