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“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

“Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Autarky has never promoted prosperity.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart