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On a hike in East Africa 2 million years ago, you might well have encountered a familiar cast of human characters: anxious mothers cuddling their babies and clutches of carefree children playing in the mud; temperamental youths chafing
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“I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.”
― Gulliver's Travels
― Gulliver's Travels
“I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.”
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“How vain the opinion is of some certain people of the East Indies, who think that apes and baboons, which are with them in great numbers, are imbued with understanding, and that they can speak but will not, for fear they should be imployed and set to work. —Antoine Le Grand, c. 1675”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“Hemen her yerde ve hele ilim ve irfanın zayıf bulunduğu memleketlerde hile, aldatmacayla daha çok iş görülür. Güya bütün insanlık yalanı, dolanı ortadan kovarak adalet ve hakikati en saygın makama geçirmek için uğraşıyor. Maazallah böyle bir felaket gerçekleşirse hep siyasetler, ticaretler, işlemler durur. Bütün dünya altüst olur. En akıllılarımız her gün aldanıyorlar. En akılsızlarımız her gün aldatıyorlar. Hepimiz daima aldanıyoruz, fakat fırsat düştükçe aldatıyoruz. Bu suretle geçim dengesini biraz düzeltebiliyoruz... Aldanıp da aldatamayanlar... İşte aç kalan güruh bu zavallılardır.”
― Efsuncu Baba
― Efsuncu Baba
“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”
― Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
― Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
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