The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
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“men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.”
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Statistically, throughout history, societies that were engaged in elevated trade also had a higher propensity for war.
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The reality of economics is quite simple: Why trade when you can invade?
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humankind “is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischances; injustice, with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter . . . and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
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Plato’s observation that “books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything”
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Nothing is certainly more precious in human affairs, nothing more esteemed than freedom.”
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“in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
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We did not get to choose our own adventure.
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For better or for worse, our destinies and interactive histories have been forever entwined, trapped in a single story of struggle and survival with ultimately the same outcome.