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Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time ...more
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Isaac Asimov
“Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, ‘Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.’ I’m no god and I’ll contend no longer.”
Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they never moved by a second.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Friedrich Schiller
“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Isaac Asimov
“Of such things, petty annoyance and aimless thrusts, is history made.”
Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

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