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However, in the back of my mind was the thought that the real hard men in the military took the soft stuff very seriously. They seemed to believe that success came from bringing the hard calculating and soft motivational sides together.
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“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it’) to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression. It has succeeded. We”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“It follows that in order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“If there is one thing certain about English pronunciation it is that there is almost nothing certain about it. No other language in the world has more words spelled the same way and yet pronounced differently.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
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