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“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest. By comparison, the brains of other apes require only 8 per cent of rest-time energy.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“He cannot “tempt” to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“up to 6 per cent of the unique human DNA of modern Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians is Denisovan DNA.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace. Facing the immense complexity of modern social and industrial conditions, there is need to use freely and unhesitatingly the collective power of all of us; and yet no exercise of collective power will ever avail if the average individual does not keep his or her sense of personal duty, initiative, and responsibility.”
― The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt
― The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt
Christopher’s 2025 Year in Books
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