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Your empire’s hands look a lot cleaner when you get to dictate where history begins, and what parts of it don’t count.
Persepolis Rising
James S. A. Corey
A succinct summary of the tragic vision was given by historians Will and Ariel Durant: Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
Move naturally. The world’s longest-lived people do not pump iron, run marathons, or join gyms. Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without thinking about it. They grow gardens and do not have mechanical conveniences for house and yard work.
Blue Zones: Lessons From the World’s Longest Lived
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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