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As far as we know, universal and missionary religions began to appear only in the first millennium BC. Their emergence was one of the most important revolutions in history, and made a vital contribution to the unification of humankind, much like the emergence of universal empires and universal money.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
In most programming languages there is no good way to deal with a null that is passed by a caller accidentally. Because this is the case, the rational approach is to forbid passing null by default. When you do, you can code with the knowledge that a null in an argument list is an indication of a problem, and end up with far fewer careless mistakes.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
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