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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond

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Sa majesté des chats

by Bernard Werber

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Elisa’s Quotes

“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

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“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

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“Las grandes desigualdades de nuestro siglo son las que separan a quienes saben y tienen acceso educativo a las fuentes el conocimiento de quienes necesitan la tutela informativa de los demás toda la vida”
― Fernando Savater, Diccionario del ciudadano sin miedo a saber

tags: inequality, knowledge

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“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

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“Constituye una paradoja criminal rehusar a la mujer toda actividad pública, cerrarle las carreras masculinas, proclamar en todos los dominios su incapacidad y confiarle, al mismo tiempo, la empresa más delicada y más grave de cuantas existen...la formación de un ser humano.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: equal-rights, feminism, sexual-discrimination

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