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"The evil that men do lives after them"

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once"

"for the eye sees not itself But by reflection, by some other thing."

"Beware the ides of March"

Something remarkable about this book is that the author consistently inverts things that are held in a negative light and uses them as the very means for overcoming setbacks. Nukes, global warming, bacterial resistance to antibacterials? Not the world-ending problems we thought originally, but rather helpful tools to help save the world.

"Never in human history had so much raw authority and power been invested into so few people. These two people—just these two—were going to literally change the face of the world." Fascinating and creative observation that the solutions we've been looking for on the world's greatest problems, probably involve destroying the very things we are trying to preserve.

"I clench my teeth. I clench my fists. I clench my butt. I clench every part of me that I know how to clench. It gives me a feeling of control. I’m doing something by aggressively doing nothing." The casual way this is written with the scientific and mathematical integration is aggressively modern.