We are the culprits. There is no way around that truth. Even if climate change abetted us, the human contribution was decisive.7
“I feel sorry for them, for as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“Good girl,” he said reassuringly, in a way that struck her as being both patronizing and indefinably male. It made her skin crawl.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“The imperial civilisation may well have absorbed numerous contributions from various conquered peoples, but the hybrid result was still alien to the vast majority. The process of assimilation was often painful and traumatic. It is not easy to give up a familiar and loved local tradition, just as it is difficult and stressful to understand and adopt a new culture. Worse still, even when subject peoples were successful in adopting the imperial culture, it could take decades, if not centuries, until the imperial elite accepted them as part of ‘us’.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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