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“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!”
― Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia; or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening. With the theory of draining morasses, and with an improved construction of the drill ... of Zoonomia, and of The Botanic Garden.

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