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“In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.”
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― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
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― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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― Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana
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― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
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