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The Chinese and Persians did not lack technological inventions such as steam engines (which could be freely copied or bought). They lacked the values, myths, judicial apparatus and sociopolitical structures that took centuries to form and mature in the West and which could not be copied and internalised rapidly.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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
But we lie to ourselves for assurance. And it is not they who are to blame for everything - we ourselves, only we.
Live Not by Lies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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