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Charles Mann (1491) and Elizabeth Kolbert (The Sixth Extinction).
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Aristotle
“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
Aristotle, Politics

Thomas E. Watson
“You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both. You are deceived and blinded that you may not see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars both.”
Thomas E Watson

Aristotle
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
Aristotle

Charles Bukowski
“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
Charles Bukowski

Aristotle
“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
Aristotle

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