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For complex organisms, the average lifespan of a species is only about four million years—roughly about where we are now.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both.
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
You have these people in Silicon Valley who are saying, “You know, we need to work in the market; we need to take advantage of entrepreneurialism in order to make the world a better place. And we need to do that, specifically, in order to enhance personal liberty.” And the [strategies they preferred were] not through the political system, but rather through through technological development, based on the belief that if we just focus on improving technology, that will naturally improve society.
How Tech Billionaires Are Threatening America’s Transportation Future
Kea Wilson
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