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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”
― Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
― Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
“In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.”
― Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
― Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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