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“Every decade archaeologists discover another few forgotten scripts. Some of them might prove to be even older than the Sumerian scratches in clay. But most of them remain curiosities because those who invented them failed to invent efficient ways of cataloguing and retrieving data. What set apart Sumer, as well as pharaonic Egypt, ancient China and the Inca Empire, is that these cultures developed good techniques of archiving, cataloguing and retrieving written records.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
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“The earth’s surface measures about 200 million square miles, of which 60 million is land. As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles – 2 per cent of the planet’s surface.2 Everywhere else was too cold, too hot, too dry, too wet, or otherwise unsuited for cultivation. This minuscule 2 per cent of the earth’s surface constituted the stage on which history unfolded. People”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
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