The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle.... He works he votes generally he prays but his chief business in life is to pay.
As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.
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Abhijit Naskar
This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour loses its relevance. The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge...
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Yuval Noah Harari
This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom...
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Yuval Noah Harari
Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life — separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive.
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Abhijit Naskar
Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension.
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Abhijit Naskar
More Quotes By William Graham Sumner
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.
The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want peace or war and then to get ready for what you want for what we prepare for is what we shall get.
