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Calvinism’s stress on divine providence suited Hungarians as it provided an explanation for their country’s occupation by the Turks and Habsburgs.
“nostalgia has nothing to do with aesthetics, it’s not even connected to happy memories. We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we’ve lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters.”
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“Western nations took a strange pride in this system, though it amounted to little more than a power-sharing deal between two rival gangs, and they would even go to war to impose it on nations that failed to share their enthusiasm.”
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“Only the autodidacts are free.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy”
― The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
― The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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