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During my first term as NYPD commissioner, Sharpton had functioned largely as a sharp-tongued publicity-seeking political gadfly,
“experiment was conducted in the Soviet Union, and it failed miserably. ‘Everyone would work according to their abilities, and receive according to their needs’ turned out in practice into ‘everyone would work as little as they can get away with, and receive as much as they could grab’.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“It’s may we live as long as we want, and never want as long as we live,”
― The Girl With All the Gifts
― The Girl With All the Gifts
“The nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer, upon seeing the explosion, quoted from the Bhagavadgita: ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― 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
“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Jim’s 2025 Year in Books
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