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“No one listens, for pride, envy, and avarice
are three sparks that kindle in men's hearts
and sets them burning.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Inferno

“Traditionally, the sole animal raised on a large scale for food in Japan has been the pig; sheep and goats have never been significant, and cattle were raised for pulling plows and carts but not for food. Japanese-raised beef remains a luxury food of the wealthy few, selling for up to $100 per pound.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“For the place where I was put to live
is stripped of good more and more each day
and seems disposed to perdition.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Purgatorio

“The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics, and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world’s most troubled areas today.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies